To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
Necessity has the face of a dog.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.
~By Mercedes Ruehl ~
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
~By Edward Bellamy ~
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.
~By Elizabeth George ~
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.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.
~By Robert Fripp ~
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
~By Agatha Christie ~
So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
~By Voltaire ~
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
~By Walter Salles ~
Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
~By William of Occam ~
Necessity does the work of courage.
~By Nicholas M. Butler ~
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
~By Jack Bowman ~
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
~By Ernst Mach ~
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
~By Emma Goldman ~
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
~By Moses Mendelssohn ~
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
~By Larry Wall ~
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
~By John Berger ~
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.
~By John McCain ~
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
~By Man Ray ~
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
~By Bruce Barton ~
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.
~By Walter Salles ~
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
~By Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ~
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
~By Solomon Ibn Gabirol ~
As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
~By Jones Very ~
Necessity has no law.
~By Oliver Cromwell ~
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
~By John Irving ~
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
~By Robert Motherwell ~
There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.
~By Clint Walker ~
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
~By Francis Quarles ~
Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
~By Samuel Fuller ~
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.
~By Martin Chemnitz ~
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
~By Augustine of Hippo ~
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
~By Leon Edel ~
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.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
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.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
~By Ray Charles ~
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
~By Charles Ives ~
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
Although... 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 party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
~By James K. Polk ~
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
~By John Betjeman ~
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.
~By Richard Owen ~
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
~By Bern Williams ~
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
Invention is the mother of necessity.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.
~By Mary McAleese ~
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
~By Karl Marx ~
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
~By Maimonides ~
New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend.
~By John Lawson ~
I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.
~By Anjelica Huston ~
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.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
~By Agnetha Faltskog ~
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
~By William Petty ~
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
~By Bill Watterson ~
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
~By Jacques Lacan ~
Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.
~By Martin H. Fischer ~
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
~By Sallust ~
But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
~By Robert Shea ~
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
~By Thomas Clarkson ~
Necessity never made a good bargain.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
~By Felix Bloch ~
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
~By James Hillman ~
In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
~By John Strachan ~
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
~By Arnold H. Glasgow ~
For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
~By Origen ~
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.
~By Phyllis George ~
I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.
~By Alex Campbell ~
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
~By Jean Toomer ~
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
~By Roger von Oech ~
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
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