Necessity Quotes

1320 Necessity quotes by 894 unique authors

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man… — Frank Herbert
All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in… — D. H. Lawrence
Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as… — Emily Dickinson
Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity. — Neal A. Maxwell
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. — Rainer Maria Rilke
And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. — Norman Mailer
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The… — Thomas Jefferson
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and… — Edmund Burke
I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect. — Jacques Derrida
At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile.… — Jack Spicer
Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are… — Michel Foucault
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its… — Raymond Chandler
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. — H.G. Wells
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is… — Margaret Atwood
The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of necessity.… — Vasily Grossman
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know… — Epictetus
Youth is insolent; it is its right – its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is… — Joseph Conrad
Necessity is the mother of all invention. — Albert Einstein
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity,… — Rebecca Solnit
I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility… — John Green
Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to… — Andre Breton

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