Necessity Quotes

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It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it.… — Benjamin Tucker
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you… — Marian Wright Edelman
The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one… — Thomas Jefferson
From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader… — George R. R. Martin
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your… — Anne Enright
Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife) — Alexander Pushkin
I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in… — Bill Brandt
The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges… — Humphry Davy
Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and… — Sigurd F. Olson
I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there… — Sigurd F. Olson
Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and… — Pope Pius XII
This earth is not our home. We are away at school, trying to master the lessons of "the great plan of happiness" so we can… — Bruce C. Hafen
The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government.… — Robert Muller
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and… — Charles Dickens
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead… — Benjamin Tucker
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine… — Georges Cuvier
In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and spirit, especially for… — Pope Benedict XVI
Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention. — Jonathan Sacks
(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any Persons at all… — Samuel Clarke
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is… — Brenda Ueland
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the… — Martin Van Buren
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. — George Santayana
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice… — John Ruskin

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