Necessity Quotes
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Great men are never cruel without necessity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There ought to be a law against necessity.
E. Y. Harburg
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein
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Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
Albert Einstein
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He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
John Locke Nazareth
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Experiences are everything. And businesses must create experiences that mean something. If necessity is the mother of invention, then vision is the father of innovation.
Brian Solis
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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Euripides
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe
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Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
Euripides
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If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.
Albert Einstein
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Necessity is the spur of genius.
Honore de Balzac
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There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.
Empedocles
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
Pythagoras
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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
Neal Cassady
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The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely any one at all escapes.
Oscar Wilde
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Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable ‘must’all life created by God exists in communal order and works toward community.
Eberhard Arnold
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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.
Alistair Cooke
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Victor Hugo
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
Honore de Balzac
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One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.
Friedrich Nietzsche