Necessity Quotes
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He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.
John Milton -
All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.
Aristotle
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Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind.
Whittaker Chambers -
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
Sophocles -
When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
Anthony Trollope -
At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity.
Dennis Stock -
Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
Dante Alighieri -
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
Euripides
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Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
Plato -
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Victor Hugo -
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison -
You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.
Angela Merici -
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
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
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Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
Thomas Carlyle -
Nature means Necessity.
Philip James Bailey -
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.
Baruch Spinoza -
If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.
Arthur E. Kennelly -
Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
Alice Hegan Rice
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Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
Alex Faickney Osborn -
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
Robert Walpole -
Creation is the result, but not the beginning of love. Redemption is the manifestation of God as love, and therefore points to a love of absolute necessity and eternity. God is love, not God became love... It is this love that we are planted by the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
Adolph Saphir -
Power is the recognition of necessity.
Abraham Rotstein