Quotes About Necessity

Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th, without buttered bread until the 16th, without tea or soup until the 17th, without gas, matches or electricity until the 20th

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

el dilema es acordarse de todo o solamente de lo necesario

An avowed feminist activist and an outspoken bisexual, DiFranco has been candid about the necessity of women musicians identifying with the F-word. "Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist," she once wrote. "There is no box marked 'other'".

Such arrogance. A right of youth, he supposes, a necessity. How else is it possible to face the terrifying void of your unformed self except by claiming absolute intelligence?

Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return

Solitude and loneliness are two separate things. One you choose out of wisdom, the other out of necessity." -Mark Miller

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.

We believe very passionately that an international approach is necessary to achieve some of these goals.

Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemption

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.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts.

Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

The spider's lesson is never to be greedy. It shows that objects of necessity can be objects of beauty and art as well. The spider teaches us that we can be too easily enraptured with ourselves.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.