Necessity Quotes

• This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness. That which is necessary, that which must be, means that which will be, whatever supposition we may make in regard to all other things.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Idea
  • Writers
  • Necessity

• He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

  

  John Milton
  • Fate
  • Necessity
  • Inextricable

• Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Life
  • Music
  • Necessity

• When obedience is so impious, Revolt is a necessity.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Obedience
  • Necessity
  • Revolt

• 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
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Ultimate

• The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Virtue
  • Necessity
  • Ascetic

• When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Wants
  • Necessity
  • Reverse

• The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Evil
  • Leader
  • Commands

• If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Support
  • Purpose
  • Population

• 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
  • Progress
  • Discontent
  • Restlessness

• Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Freedom
  • Necessity
  • Aspects

• Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other Is fed with the necessity of seeing each other It is concluded with the impossibility of separation.

  

  Alisa Valdes
  • Love
  • Pleasure
  • Born

• Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

  

  Alice Hegan Rice
  • Solitude
  • Privilege
  • Necessity

• . . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.

  

  Gerda Lerner
  • Women
  • Childhood
  • Goal

• Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Manhood

• Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Mankind
  • Hearts
  • Necessity

• My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.

  

  Elisa Kreisinger
  • Films
  • Production
  • Filmmaking

• Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

  

  Richard Wagner
  • Nature
  • Everything
  • Necessity

• Peace is not a luxury. Peace is a necessity.

  

  Ashraf Ghani
  • Peace
  • Luxury
  • Necessity

• Necessity urges desperate measures.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Desperate
  • Necessity
  • Measures

• Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Writing
  • Word
  • Necessity

• Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

  

  George Gissing
  • Human
  • Necessity
  • Adapting

• Not even Ares battles against necessity.

  

  Sophocles
  • Necessity
  • Battles

• 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
  • Necessity
  • Governors
  • Insurrection

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