Top 335 Necessity Quotes

The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example, writers of slave narratives tend to lose their individual voices, as they were expected to stand in for all other voices, which were absent.

In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it’s all put together, what will the effect be.

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.

I’m known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it’s definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.

Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

Paid sick leave is a public health necessity. Not only does it allow employees to seek medical care promptly and appropriately, it reduces the chance of spreading infectious diseases to others and enables caregivers to provide for their loved ones.

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.

Peace is not a luxury. Peace is a necessity.

In India, we have the opportunity to give innovation the kind of scale that no other country in the world can. Innovation is a necessity.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

My parents taught me practical things, about how important hard work, discipline and the necessity of managing your own money were. Their values were very much the values of the postwar middle class.

It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

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.

‘Bloo’ is a compilation of a few songs I’ve written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

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.

Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.

Shoemakers and tanners form a symbiotic relationship out of necessity. One provides the leather while the other whips it into a glorious creation.

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.

Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers’ own efforts and through their own efficiency.

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.

A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you’re walking down a street and you spot a moose?

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned – not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

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.

I got to the stage where I physically couldn’t carry on unless I gave comedy a go: it was necessity.

As a producer, you want your product to reach the maximum people. That has become a system, and to work on it has become a necessity.

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.

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

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.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Extreme rules, hardcore wrestling – whatever they want to call it – was born out of a necessity to survive.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

Look – There’s good creepy and there’s bad creepy. Today’s creepy is tomorrow’s necessity.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

YouTube’s a funny place because so many creators fall into their aesthetics out of necessity and the visuals are driven out of an urge to create. You get a lot of interesting examples of interesting design choices that have roots in practicality as well as an artistic sentiment.

In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the development of society came differentiation of function; exchange and barter arose, various trades sprang up, and with the necessity of commercial intercourse came the invention of money.

The gruesomeness of ‘Death Line’ was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Plurality should not be posited without necessity.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Necessity has no law.

There may be many benefits to working outside the home for wages, but it’s certainly not been done as an act of liberation. It’s an act of economic necessity and has been since the beginning of time.

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.

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.

The movie – any sports movie – becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.