Quotes About Necessity

In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories went up in the air and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it was necessary. We could not afford to let the enemy turn our own weapons against us.

This wasn't necessary. It could have been avoided. We didn't need to go through all this.

Tal como Liesel descubrió, un buen ladrón necesita muchas cosas. Sigilo. Audacia. Resolución. Sin embargo, mucho más importante que todo lo demás era un último requisito: la suerte.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. [p. 32]

Dove saremmo Tod e io senza il gabinetto? Dove saremmo senza tutta la spazzatura?

cuanto más profunda está la veta de carbón, más inflamable es éste. Sin embargo, cuanto más pforundo, cuanto más duro es el carbón, más necesario se torna el uso de explosivos.

Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival. Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world. Jesus is not an impractical idealist: he is the practical realist.

But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams.

Todas las demás cosas, nuestros poderes, nuestros deseos, nuestro alimento, todos son realmente necesarios en primera instancia para nuestra existencia. Pero esta rosa se nos da por añadidura. Su aroma y su color son un adorno de la vida, no una condición de ésta. Sólo la bondad se da por añadidura y por eso, repito, tenemos mucho que esperar de las flores.

Certain things have to be, the sun has to rise.

How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime, his birth a penalty, his life a labour, and death a necessity!—

A human being does at all times only what he wills, and yet does it necessarily. But that rests on the fact that he is what he wills : for out of what he is everything that he does at any time follows necessarily.

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

The paltry character of most men compels the few who have any merit or genius to behave as though they did not know their own value, and consequently did not know other people's want of value; for it is only on this condition that the mob acquiesces in tolerating merit. A virtue has been made out of this necessity, and it is called modesty.

And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

In short, a large part of the powers of the human race is taken away from the production of what is necessary, in order to bring what is superfluous and unnecessary within the reach of a few.

Efortul neincetat de a izgoni suferinta nu are alt rezultat decit o schimbare de suprafata. La origine ea apare sub forma necesitatii si a grijilor materiale. In cazul in care prin munca si eforturi deosebite reusim s-o izgonim sub aceasta forma si infatisare, suferinta se transforma, fiind in continuare prezenta, raportata la virsta si tinind seama de factorul intimplare, sub forma instinctului sexual, geloziei, pasiunii, invidiei, urii, fricii, bolii, zgirceniei etc.

recognize prayer as a vital necessity.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

However, experience has taught us that action in the now is also necessary, always. Our children cannot dream unless they live, they cannot live unless they are nourished, and who else will feed them the real food without which their dreams will be no different from ours? 'If you want us to change the world someday, we at least have to live long enough to grow up!' shouts the child.

Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change... —Audre Lorde, born #otd

Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence." —Audre Lorde

Where there is no bread, there is no philosophy.

I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.