Top 335 Necessity Quotes

The difference between comedians and the general public is that we are meant to be funnier. And when you’ve got politicians giving material so easy that the general public is doing it, what is the necessity of us anymore?
Jim Jefferies
How much better company is offered by the working wife who out of sheer necessity must keep on her toes mentally and physically.
Van Heflin
Education is a basic necessity.
Vijay Sethupathi
Well, you know, I’ve always been an entrepreneur. I’ve had it out of necessity.
Mike Lindell
If somebody were to feel the necessity to reduce themselves to a desperate state to achieve what they perceive to be their goals in life, people who work in fashion, who are models or photographers, shouldn’t be judged because of untoward acts of others. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango.
Lydia Hearst
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.
Martin Chemnitz
My life’s goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity.
Pranav Mistry
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
Susan B. Anthony
Partnership is a necessity if we are to reach our goals.
Eric Adams
Whatever I want to do or say, I get to do it on the silver screen, so in normal life I don’t feel the necessity to do or say anything.
Paresh Rawal
Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.
Joseph Brodsky
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.
Isabelle Adjani
I faded away for a while out of necessity.

I faded away for a while out of necessity.
Phoebe Snow
Reservation is a socio-political necessity. Hence, there is a constitutional provision for it.
Rajnath Singh
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Leonardo da Vinci
I don’t believe in alcohol. It’s a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I’m not a gambling man.
T. J. Miller
I love nice things – I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury – but I’ve known what it’s like to be poor.
Martine McCutcheon
Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare.
Michael Ignatieff
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.
Jimmy Chamberlin
Access to reliable Internet is a necessity, whether it’s for school, work, or staying connected with family and friends.
Sara Gideon
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Henri Poincare
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.
Irvine Welsh
Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.
Antonio Damasio
Let me be clear: I recognise the necessity of tackling antisemitism in the Labour party head-on.
Ash Sarkar
Customer service teams at many companies have already embraced social media, often out of necessity.
Ryan Holmes
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you’d get your supplies, and then you’d use your imagination.
Amy Sedaris
Wars of necessity are essentially unavoidable. They involve the most important national interests, a lack of promising alternatives to the use of force, and a certain and considerable price to be paid if the status quo is allowed to stand. Examples include World War II and the Korean War.
Richard N. Haass
Necessity creates everything in my life.
Christian Louboutin
With ShamWow, I had to become my own distributor because no one wanted it. Out of necessity you become something you’re not expecting. It was actually a blessing.
Vince Offer
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust
Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it’s a necessity in ones everyday performance.
Robert Fripp
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.
Harry S Truman
My mother, Anne, was a cleaner and a shopkeeper. Out of economic necessity she had to hold down two jobs and she would take me and my older sisters, Dawn and Joanna, and my younger brother, David, with her when she cleaned houses.
Robson Green
Working out is not a luxury, it’s a necessity.
Marisa Miller
I think I became a gay comedian out of necessity, because what else am I gonna do with that name? And it has worked out now, but it was a very difficult childhood. It sounds like the hokiest stage name ever.
Randy Rainbow
Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.
Shah Rukh Khan
There ought to be a law against necessity.
E. Y. Harburg
Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen
Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
Arnold H. Glasow
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin
One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don’t think that is a bad thing.
Kathleen Wynne
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Wendell Willkie
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
Jose Rizal
Trust, faith and belief in your partner is a basic nece

Trust, faith and belief in your partner is a basic necessity for any relationship to survive.
Suniel Shetty
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn’t be so outspoken.
Betty Ford
If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.
Cesare Beccaria
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently.
Stacy Schiff
But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
Vivienne Westwood
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Raoul Vaneigem
For me, style wasn’t something that was a luxury or an option, really: It was a necessity. I knew that there were certain negative stereotypes that I faced because of the way I looked. For me, suits and style became social armour.
Jagmeet Singh
There’s a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It’s a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I’m just not very interested in it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe
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.
Jones Very
If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
Tariq Ramadan
Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.
Charles A. Beard
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.
James K. Polk
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.
Leon Bourgeois
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.
Walter Salles
A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware of the necessity of a more harmonious relation between man and nature, we need to build cities which can connect with human spiritual needs instead of being merely functional.
Ma Yansong
We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.
Joel Salatin