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Quotes About Necessity

Those who hide their complete freedom from themselves out of a spirit of seriousness or by means of deterministic excuses, I shall call cowards; those who try to show that their existence was necessary, when it is the very contingency of man's appearance on earth, I shall call stinkers. But cowards or stinkers can be judged only from a strictly unbiased point of view.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
por definición, la existencia no es la necesidad. Existir es estar ahí, simplemente; los existentes aparecen.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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
We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.
~ Samuel Florman
There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.
~ James Caan
Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.
~ Sigmund Freud
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
~ B. C. Forbes
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
I think the only reason people use PCs is because they have to. Mac is the most streamlined computer there is. I started using the Mac in college because I was doing editing, and they were the only computers we could use to do that.
~ Cary Fukunaga
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
~ Euripides
Using a smartphone for long hours is stressful, bad for the eyes and overall health. But a smartphone is a necessity today. You cannot do without it.
~ Bhushan Kumar
I always carry a pocketknife in my pocket for opening boxes, cutting a string, or whatever little thing comes up.
~ Brad Leone
The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.
~ David Shields
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
~ Daniel Webster
Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.
~ Thales
It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.
~ Sebastian Junger
The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.
~ Benigno Aquino III
Anti-people policies of the BJP government have made strong opposition a necessity.
~ Pinarayi Vijayan
The idea of eating one kind of food day in and day out, for some, is sometimes the only option.
~ Melissa Leong
There ought to be a law against necessity.
~ E. Y. Harburg
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
~ Stephen Gardiner
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
~ Samuel Johnson
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
~ Abel Korzeniowski