Necessity Quotes

Killing ain't fair, but somebody gotta do it.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.

Our need will be the real creator.

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.

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

Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second.

there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and transform it into it something delicious that everyone will love.

We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

And nature must obey necessity.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

The deep of night is crept upon our talk,And Nature must obey necessity.