Quotes About Necessity

Be clear about the purpose of money. Money is like health. It is necessary for survival but it is not what you live for.

The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have.

The need is necessary.

The need is what is necessary.

In a day a man needs only his daily bread.

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

A Birmigham suffragette called Bertha Brewster, writing to the Daily Telegraph in February 1913, did not pull her punches: Everyone seems to agree upon the necessity of putting a stop to Suffragist outrages, but no-one seems certain how to do so. There are two, only two ways in which this can be done. Both will be effectual. 1. Kill every woman in the United Kingdom. 2. Give women the vote.

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.

Pass on hiring people you don't need, even if you think that person's a great catch.

When you build what you need, you can also assess the quality of what you make quickly and directly, instead of by proxy. Mary

Pass on hiring people you don't need, even if you think that person's a great catch. You'll be doing your company more harm than good if you bring in talented people who have nothing important to do.

Necessity is the mother of reinvention. —what Plato should have said

I thanked her, and while normally I wouldn't be caught dead wearing sweaters so hideous they'd offend Bill Gates's fashion sense, beggars can't be choosers and all that.

la costumbre obra milagros y confiere rango de necesidad a lo antojadizo y superfluo.

Translatio studii et imperii is a battle, it operates through a movement of incorporation and rejection: everyone must become like us (converted or 'translated'); because of the necessity of translation you will be a second?class citizen in the empire.

If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn't be necessary.

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

The transformation of human consciousness is no longer a luxury, so to speak, available only to a few isolated individuals, but a necessity if humankind is not to destroy itself. At the present time, the dysfunction of the old consciousness and the arising of the new are both accelerating. Paradoxically, things are getting worse and better at the same time, although the worse is more apparent because it makes so much "noise.

He remembered once hearing his grandmother... say plaintively: Why daughter, I presume I can go without -- BUT I CAN'T ECONOMIZE.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

With this turnabout the lusting after reflection, the search to grasp the absolute in transitory experience, loses its grip. One no longer experiences things as objective and independent, but as reflections within knowing. Upstream of all necessity to focus attention, all conflict becomes a dance, all opposition melts as I and the 'other' are known as two faces of one reality.

Si sa che agli uomini il bene bisogna, le più volte, farlo per forza.

A luxury once tasted becomes a necessity.