Top 100 Quotes About Necessity
#2. Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
Jim Rohn
#3. There is a certain mentality that believes in covering up. They believe in it with the sincerity and fanaticism that members of some religious groups believe in the divinity of Jesus. Because, for some people, the necessity to continue covering up even after the damage is done is all-important.
Stephen King
#4. Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.
Plato
#5. True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#6. Failure is the quintessence to triumph. Fear is a necessity. Whatever is needed in one's life to maintain the universal principle of Chaos should be seasoned and not discouraged. Regardless of whether it's crazy, it's one's subjective reality. That makes it beautiful.
Lionel Suggs
#7. A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
John Muir
#10. We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.
Joel Salatin
#11. Maybe it's the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place.
Cristina Henriquez
#12. Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Leon Edel
#13. impudicitia in ingenuo crimen est, in servo necessitas, in liberto officium ("to be the object of anal penetration is a crime in the freeborn, a necessity for a slave, a duty for a freedman").
David Graeber
#14. When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
Agnetha Faltskog
#15. ...Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution.
Louis Althusser
#16. Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.
Anne Rice
#17. (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 upon a necessity of making such an Option, wherein if they choose amiss, the Misery they incur must be irrevocable.
Samuel Clarke
#18. You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself; then thank everyone who provides an opportunity.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#19. No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#20. Love is so easily bruised by the necessity of making choices.
Susan Vreeland
#21. There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
Franz Kafka
#22. Necessity is the last and strongest weapon
Livy
#23. To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase production while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature.
Calvin Coolidge
#24. It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.
Idries Shah
#25. I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy, but owing to some imperative necessity of action.
Bertrand Russell
#26. To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.
Brand Blanshard
#27. To reveal the necessity of the kingdom to others is to live by it
Sunday Adelaja
#28. Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.
Thomas Paine
#29. I have abandoned the beggarly necessity of living. I live without it.
Antonio Porchia
#30. In order to be wise, we cannot expect yesterday's wise decision to relieve us from the necessity and responsibility to make wise decisions today.
Marshall Lenne
#31. Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone; entire populations are mobilized for the purpose of wholesale slaughter in the name of life necessity: massacres have become vital.
Michel Foucault
#32. Success in life is a necessity, but happiness is essential.
Debasish Mridha
#33. If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#34. Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system, and resolutely abstain from what hurts you, however well you may like it. A few days' abstinence, and cold water for a beverage, has driven off many an approaching disease.
Lydia M. Child
#36. Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.
A.J. Quinnell
#37. A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#38. The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.
Paige Craig
#40. For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.
Wernher Von Braun
#41. Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#42. The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
#43. Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
Oscar Wilde
#44. Everybody has to share something. This is one of the most important laws of the human condition, is the necessity to share. This is the task of the writer - but not only of a writer, of every human being - it is to share something that he or she has.
Paulo Coelho
#45. The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.
Max McKeown
#46. That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance.
Joseph Heller
#47. It doesna matter the direction necessity forces ye to take in life, it matters which way ye go when ye have a choice.
Madeline Martin
#48. Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.
Anne Michaels
#49. Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.
Antonio Damasio
#50. I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.
Dinah Sheridan
#51. The very conception of such a completion of the task of science is a contradction in terms. The quest of science is, therefore, by its nature a never-ending task in which every step ahead with necessity creates new problems.
Friedrich A. Hayek
#52. Making friends with the impersonal necessity of death is an ethical way of installing oneself in life as a transient, slightly wounded visitor.
Rosi Braidotti
#55. The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
Agnes Repplier
#56. For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator.
Dwain K. White Sr.
#57. A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
David Gemmell
#58. Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers' own efforts and through their own efficiency.
Charles M. Schwab
#59. Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.
Karl Marx
#60. Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about.
Rod Stryker
#61. An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
Bernard Williams
#62. My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity.
John Updike
#63. People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis.
Jean Monnet
#64. While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality ... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon Redon
#65. Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.
Fredrik Bajer
#66. As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.
William Howard Taft
#67. Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
Alice Hegan Rice
#68. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
Francis Quarles
#69. Activity was always to Inspector Slack's taste. To rush off in a car, to silence rudely those people who were anxious to tell him things, to cut short conversations on the plea of urgent necessity. All this was the breath of life to Slack.
Agatha Christie
#70. Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.
Edwin A. Abbott
#71. In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.
Carl Sagan
#72. True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
Ellen Glasgow
#73. The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.
Herbert Hoover
#74. Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice
Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)
Karl Marx
#75. Those who will not learn
in plenty to keep their place
must learn it by their need
when they have had their way
and the fields spurn their seed.
We have failed Thy grace.
Lord, I flinch and pray,
send Thy necessity.
"We Who Prayed and Wept", p. 211.
Wendell Berry
#76. 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 equilibrium.
Sigurd F. Olson
#77. I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race.
Anousheh Ansari
#78. When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
Thomas Clarkson
#79. Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be punished and brought back, but this necessity breaks my heart.
Robert Anderson
#80. Lucy had no wish to entertain that gentleman. None at all. It was not that Lucy did not wish to marry Mr. Olson, for she had no doubt that marrying him was the most practical thing to do. Nevertheless, she would very much rather avoid the necessity of making conversation with him.
David Liss
#81. The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#82. If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
Edward Bellamy
#84. Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.
Sean Parker
#85. Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.
Lev Shestov
#86. A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve
Simon Barnes
#87. Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.
C.S. Lewis
#88. New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.
Rumi
#89. Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe
#90. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
E.B. White
#91. All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion
Chantal Mouffe
#92. 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 in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
Woodrow Wilson
#93. Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
Pliny The Elder
#94. Was a struggle to choose one's own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil?
Diana Gabaldon
#96. Intelligence could not thrive where there was no change and no necessity for change.
Felix J. Palma
#97. Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.
Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
#98. (...) all men are united in one common effort to survive on this earth. All men share a common human necessity, a common human aim. All men are equally entitled to life, and therefore to the necessities of life.
Rose Wilder Lane
#99. Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#100. For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
Audre Lorde
