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Quotes About Necessity

People have so great a need to reverence, to worship, to adore; it is a psychological necessity of human nature that must be taken into account.
~ Dorothy Day
For most of the twentieth century our educational system has been built on the assumption that teaching is necessary for learning to occur.
~ Douglas Thomas
La existencia de un líder personalizado no es necesario cuando un porcentaje significativo de la población comparte el mismo espíritu y este facilita las influencia unitativas del atractor extraño. Un país es como un organismo, el cual transita a través de etapas definidas. La necesidad de líderes vivos es imprescindible en la infancia de un pueblo, mas no en su madurez.
~ Dr. Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
~ Dr. Jose P. Rizal
It is by the existence of Slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have a greater proportion than any other people, who have leisure for intellectual pursuits, and the means of attaining a liberal education.
~ Drew Gilpin Faust
Necessity brings him here, not pleasure.
~ Durante degli Alighieri
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.
~ Harold Laski
Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable 'must'all life created by God exists in communal order and works toward community.
~ Eberhard Arnold
The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
~ Karl A. Menninger
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
~ Anais Nin
It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.
~ Thorstein Veblen
Changing is what people do when they have no options left.
~ Holly Black, Red Glove
Some people think happiness is a luxury, but its a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.
~ Christie Brinkley
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
~ Kris Kristofferson
I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
~ Jim Carrey
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
~ Jim Carrey
Well, necessity is the motherfucker of invention, man.
~ Jim Carrey
Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and our place in it.
~ Jo Walton
Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary.
~ Jo Walton
The issues that preoccupy bicycle advocates in the West—bike commuting as a planning priority and "lifestyle choice"—have little connection to the reality of the hundreds of millions for whom cycling is simply a necessity, the only viable and affordable means of travel.
~ Jody Rosen
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
~ Anne Carson
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
~ Anne Carson