Necessity Quotes

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Necessity does the work of courage.

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Plurality should not be posited without necessity.

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.