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Quotes About Necessity

Second. The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights in order to vest it with requisite powers.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures correspondingly erroneous.
~ Alexander Hamilton
but having witnessed Cricket's heartbreak, there seems to be little comfort to be gained when someone you love dies. It's just a case of necessity. Of getting on with it. Of putting one foot in front of the other, and breathing in and out.
~ Alexandra Potter
The problem for me is that 'Watchmen,' one of the great comics of all time, is a look at superheroes that has gone beyond the concept of or necessity for superheroes.
~ Joss Whedon
I need music like I need water.
~ Amy Grant
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.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Bathrooms on the plane are so small. Where are you supposed to change a baby?
~ Evan Ross
Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.
~ Ann Makosinski
My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity.
~ John Updike
I've always had a big voice, but I'm very aware of when you need to belt or go all out like that - when it's necessary and plot driven - as opposed to just screaming to scream, which I hate.
~ Lindsay Mendez
Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
~ Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.
~ Gary L. Francione
I'm compulsive.
~ Doris Lessing
I don't miss playing guitar anymore. I'm sure that's out of necessity, but I am grateful for so much more. I am surrounded by loving people, and I can still make music.
~ Jason Becker
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
~ Russel Honore
It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.
~ Jeff Dunham
I need to make money. If I don't, I cannot survive.
~ Lou Jiwei
Having one foot in design and the other in sustainable and social projects, I hear this question quite often: 'Why does the world need another chair?' My answer is that the world needs another chair/bicycle/car or any new product for that matter, like the world needs another book.
~ Yves Behar
The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
all that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment
~ Rene Descartes
I know necessity may cause the Church to tolerate the weak; but woe to us if we tolerate and indulge our own weakness.
~ Richard Baxter