Necessity Quotes

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.