Quotes About Necessity

Without predators, people who can think the unthinkable, and act without fear or hesitation, the world stands still. You are an evolutionary necessity.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

A state of inactivity was never mean for man....There are hours when I feel unequal to the trial...Let no person say what they would or not do since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act...necessity has no law...

John Sharpe summarizes it well in his review of G. K. Chesterton's Outline of Sanity: The world today operates by ". . . consuming the world's limited resources to produce an ever-expanding stream of products which are designed to wear out or become quickly outmoded, and for which the need is more often than not created by advertising, and not by necessity.

Would you rather be hungry or dead?

Men are so simple, and yield so much to necessity, that he who will deceive may always find him that will lend himself to be deceived.

Sometimes events conspire to force one to do what should be done.

And it was okay because it had to be. There wasn't any other choice. Sometimes it is a relief not to have a choice. I will have to get Meyer to explain this concept to me.

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

8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine and deep and necessary. You don't have time for silly trivial things. You live seriously. You don't go to silly films, even if you want to; you don't read cheap newspapers; you don't listen to trash on the wireless and the telly; you don't waste time talking about nothing. You use your life.

Why do we need them if we hate them?" the daughter tiredly asked. "We hate them because we need them," the mother answered, her speech slurred.

Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their safety seems to be the first.

In the modern economy, a slightly bizarre fact, production is now more necessary for the employment it provides than for the goods and services it supplies.

Augustine concluded that war, if necessary to save the state, could be a lesser evil than peace—and that the procedural prerequisites for necessity could be stated. Had provocation occurred? Had competent authority exhausted peaceful alternatives? Would the resort to violence be a means chosen, not an end in itself?

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion.

I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates.

Every experience we have is necessary and perfect. In other words, everything is Perfect.

...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.