#Necessity Quotes

“What need the bridge much broader than the flood?”

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

“You lack the season of all natures, sleep.”

“Desperate times breed desperate measures”

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

“I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.”

“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.”

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

“And nature must obey necessity.”

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

“Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.”

“The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.”

“Beauty rests on necessities.”

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

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”

“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.”

“When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.”

“Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.”

“Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.”

“Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.”

“Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.”

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

“A harmless necessary cat.”

“Necessity does everything well.”

“The superfluous, a very necessary thing.”

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

“Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.”

“Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.”

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

“Without electricity, the air would rot.”

“Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.”

“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.”

“[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.”

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”

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

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

“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.”

“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.”

“A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.”

“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.”

“Every need brings what's needed.Pain bears its cure like a child.Having nothing produces provisions.Ask a difficult question,And the marvelous answer appears.”

“Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.”

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

“The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.”

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

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

“Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.”

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”

“No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.”

“Our need will be the real creator.”