The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
~By Ida Tarbell ~
There ought to be a law against necessity.
~By E. Y. Harburg ~
Necessity does the work of courage.
~By Nicholas M. Butler ~
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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 ~
Invention is the mother of necessity.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
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 ~
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
~By Thomas Clarkson ~
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
~By Madame de Stael ~
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 ~
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
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.
~By Jacques Ellul ~
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
~By Anna C. Brackett ~
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
~By Democritus ~
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
~By John Irving ~
Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.
~By Paul Bailey ~
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.
~By Chaim Potok ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
~By Henri Poincare ~
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
~By Robert Walpole ~
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 ~
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 ~
The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.
~By Jimmy Chamberlin ~
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
~By Odilon Redon ~
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 ~
For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.
~By Jean-Marie Messier ~
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 ~
The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.
~By Robert Creeley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
~By Sallust ~
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 ~
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
~By Euripides ~
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 ~
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 ~
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
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 hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
~By Nelson Algren ~
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 ~
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
~By John C. Ransom ~
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
~By David Brainerd ~
But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.
~By Steven Brust ~
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 ~
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
~By George McClellan ~
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
~By Friedrich Engels ~
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 ~
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
~By Bill Watterson ~
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
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 ~
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Necessity has no law.
~By Oliver Cromwell ~
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
~By Augustine of Hippo ~
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 ~
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 ~
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
~By Robert Motherwell ~
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 ~
Necessity never made a good bargain.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
~By Jerry Pournelle ~
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 ~
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.
~By James Broughton ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
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 ~
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
~By Max Eastman ~
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
~By Roger von Oech ~
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 ~
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
~By Charles Ives ~
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
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 ~
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
~By Jean Toomer ~
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
~By Edward Abbey ~
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 ~
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
~By John Moody ~
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
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.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~
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.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
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.
~By Bernard Barton ~
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
~By John Ashcroft ~
It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
~By Sophocles ~
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 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 ~
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