Quotes About Necessity

Great necessities call out great virtues.

to leave a child without language for a moment longer than is absolutely necessary seems cruel to me.

Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

It's good to be reminded now and then that such things exist." "What things?" "Beauty. Peace." She held his eyes. "Goodness. But they're fragile and can so easily disappear, unless people are willing to do what's necessary to defend them.

There was nothing right or good in dying for your country. A necessity, sometimes, yes. But always a tragedy. Not an aspiration.

It would be a cull." "Culls happen for the health of the community. They're unfortunate, but necessary

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option it is a basic health care necessity.

Water is what people need to survive," he said. "It quenches the deepest thirst, and you don't have to be rich to drink it. There's nothing better than cold water….

Mother Teresa, when asked about her holiness or saintliness, always answers in a matter-of-fact way that holiness is a necessity of life--and explains that it is not the luxury of a few, such as those who take the course of religious life, but is "a simple duty of all. Holiness is for everyone.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.

Es muss sein [It must be]!

Must it be? It must be.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

Start doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Occasionally in this life, we must give up or lose the things that we want in order to gain the things we really need.

Saying goodbye to someone because you have to not because you want to can be the hardest thing in the world to do.

I am always saying 'Glad to have met you.' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

If death is necessity life is a choice

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.