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Quotes About Necessity

The amount of money that is in your bank at the time of your death is the extra work you did which wasn't necessary
~ Adolf Hitler
Ogni volta che la dea necessità mi prese nelle sue braccia e minacciò di stritolarmi, crebbe parimenti la volontà di resistenza, e la mia volontà seppe vincere
~ Adolf Hitler
Creation is the result, but not the beginning of love. Redemption is the manifestation of God as love, and therefore points to a love of absolute necessity and eternity. God is love, not God became love... It is this love that we are planted by the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
~ Adolph Saphir
not continue any longer than is absolutely necessary, since justification for such intervention is found only in the exceptional nature of the situation.415
~ Adrian Vermeule
And I won't tell you where it is, so why do I tell you anything? Because you still listen, because in times like these to have you listen at all, it's necessary to talk about trees.
~ Adrienne Rich
Spanglish is very natural. It's however it comes out. But there are a few patterns that all of us, especially Mexican-American writers, just noticed in how we utilized Spanglish. It comes out of necessity when you can't find the next word. You go to whatever language will serve you best.
~ Tanya Saracho
I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.
~ Art Modell
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
~ George B. McClellan
They say that this lot is bitterest: to recognize the good but by necessity to be barred from it.
~ Pindar
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
~ Plato, The Republic
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
~ Pliny the Elder
Thus it is that most people seem to suffer more from hard words than hard deeds, and are more excited by insult than by actual hurt. What we do to our enemies in war is done of necessity, but the evil we say of them seems to spring from an excess of spite.
~ Plutarch
Basically, he used to say, the term cheap did not apply to something inessential: even if something cost only an as, you should regard it as something expensive if it was not something you needed- Cato the Elder
~ Plutarch
How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's where human life is found. - (Houseboy + Maid, in Tales from Djakarta)
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. #HotspotDrama
~ Proverb
Necessity knows no law except to prevail.
~ Publilius Syrus
Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
~ Pythagoras
Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
~ Pythagoras
Men or tigers, sphex or carabs are under the same necessity; to kill or to die, or to shed blood or eat grass. But to eat grass, is not much better than suicide: ask the lambkins.
~ Remy de Gourmont
There was no water. Food by tons would have no value. You need water to survive. If the ravens brought Elijah filet steaks, fresh vegetables and the best-tasting bread it would have meant nothing.
~ R. T. Kendall
His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.
~ Rachel Hartman
There are two sacred causes in this world," he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. "Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need.
~ Rachel Hartman
I've never understood why anyone would want to join the army, but that's irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that, as long as we go on voting in governments who are prepared to take troops into an illegal war, that army is a necessity.
~ John Tiffany