Necessity Quotes - page 2

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. (Augustine of Hippo)
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. View quote
Thomas Edison
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. View quote
Larry Wall
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best. View quote
Jules Verne
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. View quote
Jules Verne
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity. View quote
Germaine Greer
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States. View quote
James K. Polk
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. (William Pitt the Younger)
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces. View quote
José Rizal
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. View quote
Richard Owen
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. View quote
Odilon Redon
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does no remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. View quote
Edmund Burke
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue to impose it with judgment and equality to employ it economically and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds. View quote
Edmund Burke
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. View quote
Maya Angelou
The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed ... It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality. (Richard Wright)
Mothers are the necessity of invention. View quote
Bill Watterson
Sheer necessity,the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
Necessity has no law. View quote
Oliver Cromwell