Necessity Quotes

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I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their… — Thomas Jefferson
But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it… — Samuel Beckett
There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble… — Victor Hugo
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity… — Woodrow Wilson
Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it… — Milan Kundera
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and… — Leo Tolstoy
... I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so… — Catherynne M. Valente
The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't… — James A. Baldwin
Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should… — Saint Augustine
The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as… — Henry David Thoreau
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our… — William Shakespeare
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. — Frank Herbert
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive… — Anne Lamott
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had… — Ayn Rand
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied… — Richard Wright
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. — Audre Lorde
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.… — James Madison
Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to… — Karl Marx
Good wine is a necessity of life for me. — Thomas Jefferson
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity... — John Muir
Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If… — Ayn Rand
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has… — Joris-Karl Huysmans

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