96 Necessity Quotes

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never good but through necessity: on the contrary, when good and evil are left to their choice, they will not fail to throw every thing into disorder and confusion. Hunger and poverty may make men industrious, but laws only can make them good; for, if men were so of themselves, there would be no occasion for laws; but, as the case is far otherwise, they are absolutely necessary.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.

Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

All government is an ugly necessity.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.

There is nothing better or more necessary than love.

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

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 is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity).

The 'through-and-through' universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable allpervasiveness. Its necessity, with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.

Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities- not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species.

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the world, but every possible world, must conform.

I work to stay alive.

The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last day.

Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.

A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.

Killing ain't fair but somebody's got to do it.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical.

Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs.

We leave to some Emil Ludwig or his ilk the drawing of Abraham Lincoln's portrait with rosy little wings. Lincoln's significance lies in his not hesitating before the most severe means once they were found to be necessary in achieving a great historic aim posed by the development of a young nation. The question lies not even in which of the warring camps caused or itself suffered the greatest number of victims. History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains - let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!

The church is certainly necessary for the people. It is a strong and conservative element.

on possibly making Good Eats: The Movie: That would be one movie the world just doesn't need.

Let us then enunciate the functions of a state and we shall easily elicit what we want: First there must be food; secondly, arts, for life requires many instruments; thirdly, there must be arms, for the members of a community have need of them, and in their own hands, too, in order to maintain authority both against disobedient subjects and against external assailants....

I never felt it was inevitable that we had to go to war.

When man is raised from his slumber in the senses, he feels that he is a man, he surveys his surroundings, and finds that he is in a state. He was introduced into this state, by the power of circumstances, before he could freely select his own position. But as a moral being he cannot possibly rest satisfied with a political condition forced upon him by necessity, and only calculated for that condition; and it would be unfortunate if this did satisfy him. In many cases man shakes off this blind law of necessity, by his free spontaneous action, of which among many others we have an instance, in his ennobling by beauty and suppressing by moral influence the powerful impulse implanted in him by nature in the passion of love.

Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessitee.

George Washington was perhaps the one indispensable man among the founders.

I cannot imagine a world without music. It would be . . . well, I cannot imagine it.

'If you always need money like I do, then you can't be selective about movies. They're all just one big heap of nonsense.'

She must transform his hands so they will be willing to twist the rope around throats that have been singled out as hers was, throats other than hers. She must marry the hangman or no one, but that is not so bad. Who else is there to marry?

He thought secrecy a virtue, and dissimulation no vice, and simulation, that is in plain English, a lie, or perfideousness to be a tolerable fault in case of necessity.

You are truly a monster. You speak of sacrilege and massacre of innocents, and then you ask me to trust you. I speak of necessity, and ask you to help me keep from being a monster.

For every job, so many men so many men no-one needs.

Lorsque l'obeissance a tant d'impiete, La revolte devient une necessite.

Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonie gem.

If you need anything, take it from the Americans!

I only want to paint good,necessary,living pictures,which are experienced properly by at least a few viewers.

We know more than we need to know.

Why? - It paid the rent.

Cruel necessity.

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite...to the attainment of the ends of such power.

Thus the universe is to be conceived as attaining the active self-expression of its own variety of opposites of its own freedom and its own necessity, of its own multiplicity and its own unity, of its own imperfection and its own perfection. All the opposites are elements in the nature of things, and are incorrigibly there. The concept of God is the way in which we understand this incredible fact that what cannot be, yet is.

History is at once freedom and necessity.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Children and fools want everything, because they want wit to distinguish; there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things unneccesary.

Law is mighty, mightier necessity.

The United States of America never goes to war because we want to, we only go to war because we have to.

I was broke and Nic [Cage] asked me if I needed a job. I did and he told me I should try acting. (1988)

There is, therefore, no difficulty in answering such questions as these. What cause was there why the Universe was placed in such a part of Space? and, Why was the Universe created at such a Time? for, if there be no Space beyond the Universe, it was impossible that it should be created in another place; and if there was no Time before, it was impossible it should be created at another time.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Muss es sein? Es muss sein.

Cruelty can only be justified by necessity.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

The accounts do show that Australia is in a recession. The most important thing about that is, is that this is the recession that Australia had to have.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me, like food or water.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

That which must be, has the right to be.

It is the principle of necessity towards which, as to their ultimate centre, all the ideas advanced in this essay immediately converge. In abstract theory the limits of this necessity are determined solely by considerations of man's proper nature as a human being; but in the application we have to regard, in addition, the individuality of man as he actually exists. This principle of necessity should, I think, prescribe the grand fundamental rule to which every effort to act on human beings and their manifold relations should be invariably conformed. For it is the only thing which conducts to certain and unquestionable results. The consideration of the useful, which might be opposed to it, does not admit of any true and unswerving decision.

To the yoke of necessity every one willingly bows the head. Still, wherever an actually complicated aspect of things presents itself, it is more difficult to discover exactly what is necessary; but by the very acknowledgment of the principle, the problem invariably becomes simpler and the solution easier.