Necessity Quotes

“I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.”

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.”

“Necessity has the face of a dog.”

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

“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.”

“All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.”

“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

“Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.”

“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.”

“Necessity never made a good bargain.”

“Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?”

“Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.”

“Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.”

“It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.”

“'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.”

“And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.”

“Necessity is the mother of all invention.”

“It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.”

“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.”

“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.”