Necessity has the face of a dog.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
~By Odilon Redon ~
Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
~By Solomon Ibn Gabirol ~
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.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
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 ~
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.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
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 ~
Good writers are of necessity rare.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
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 ~
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
~By Lincoln Kirstein ~
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 ~
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
~By Jan Morris ~
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.
~By John McCain ~
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
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.
~By Maya Angelou ~
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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 ~
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 ~
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.
~By Will Eisner ~
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.
~By James F. Cooper ~
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 ~
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
~By Mark Twain ~
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.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.
~By Lincoln Kirstein ~
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Necessity does the work of courage.
~By Nicholas M. Butler ~
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 ~
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 ~
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
~By Robert Motherwell ~
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
~By Francis Quarles ~
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
~By John Ashcroft ~
Invention is the mother of necessity.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
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 ~
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
~By Thomas Clarkson ~
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
~By Franz Kafka ~
So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.
~By Joan Jett ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
~By William of Occam ~
It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
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.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
~By Carl Jung ~
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
Necessity, the mother of invention.
~By George Farquhar ~
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
~By John Adams ~
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
~By Salmon P. Chase ~
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
~By Friedrich Engels ~
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 ~
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
~By Ayn Rand ~
The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.
~By Robert Creeley ~
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
~By Josiah Warren ~
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 ~
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
~By Charles Ives ~
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 ~
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 ~
The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.
~By Willy Ley ~
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
~By Augustine of Hippo ~
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.
~By Theophile Gautier ~
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.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they aren't a necessity.
~By Donald C. Medeiros ~
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 ~
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 ~
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
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 ~
There ought to be a law against necessity.
~By E. Y. Harburg ~
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 ~
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
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 ~
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
~By Robert Benchley ~
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 ~
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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 ~
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.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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