Necessity Quotes
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Nature means Necessity.
Philip James Bailey
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.
Elliott Sober
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I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.
Wilhelm Keitel
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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
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It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
Thomas Aquinas
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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
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Power is the recognition of necessity.
Abraham Rotstein
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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
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And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Lord Byron
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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
Albert Camus
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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
John Milton
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Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.
Isaac Newton
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Thomas Carlyle
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There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.
Tones and I
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To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.
Eli Siegel
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Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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Everything that happens, happens of necessity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
Alex Faickney Osborn
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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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Finally, I spoke of the necessity of recounting frankly every human experience, including, I said emphatically, what seems unsayable and what we do not speak of even to ourselves.
Elena Ferrante
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I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.
Euripides