Quotes About Necessity

Hunger allows no choice.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

A learned theologian has laid down That starving men may take what's necessary, And yet be sinless.

Thousands have lived without love, none without water.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

there was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve.

Necessity does the work of courage.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Hard to determine from the way she tackled her tasks whether it was she who was serving necessity or necessity that was serving her.

You're somebody who has banished all superfluous sentiments from his life. No asinine longings to be home again. No patience for the nonessential. Only time for what's indispensable.

To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion," cautioned T. S. Eliot.

To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion

La question à l'échelle du macrocosme comme du microcosme, y a-t-il une intention ou bien seulement nécessité et hasard ? (p.203)

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

the greatest of penalties is being ruled by a worse man if one is not willing to rule oneself. It is because they fear this, in my view, that decent men rule, when they do rule; and at that time they proceed to enter on rule, not as though they were going to something good, or as though they were going to be well off in it; but they enter on it as a necessity and because they have no one better than or like themselves to whom to turn it over.

yet the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Then a slice of our neighbours' land will be wanted by us for pasture and tillage, and they will want a slice of ours, if, like ourselves, they exceed the limit of necessity, and give themselves up to the unlimited accumulation of wealth? That, Socrates, will be inevitable. And so we shall go to war, Glaucon. Shall we not? Most certainly, he replied.

mira si no es más bien necesario que el que desea le falte la cosa que desea, o bien que no la desee si no le falta.