Necessity Quotes & Sayings

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~ There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. ~

~ The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. ~

Richard Owen

~ Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. ~

Jean Toomer

~ Not necessity, not desire /no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything /health, food, a place to live, entertainment /they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. ~

Niklaus Wirth

~ \"Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.\" ~

William of Ockham (?-1349)

~ Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ~

Jacques Ellul

~ All government is an ugly necessity. ~

G. K. Chesterton

~ Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free. ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ It is with pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. ~

Thomas Paine

~ An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. ~

Bern Williams

~ No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. ~

Bruce Barton

~ No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. ~

Bernard Barton

~ Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition. ~

Sir Walter Scott

~ Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way. ~

John Donne

~ Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ~

Thomas Alva Edison

~ Discontent is the first necessity of progress. ~

Thomas Alva Edison

~ If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. ~

David Rockefeller

~ For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights. ~

B. R. Ambedkar

~ If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. ~

Boethius

~ All government is an ugly necessity. ~

G. K. Chesterton

~ The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. ~

Maya Angelou

~ The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. ~

Niccolò Machiavelli

~ Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident. ~

Charles de Montesquieu

~ To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg. ~

James Thomas

~ It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins. ~

NORMAN MACDONALD

~ Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ~

Hannah Arendt

~ The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. ~

Maya Angelou

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