Quotes About Necessity

Some things just have to be true, Scott said, because they have no other choice.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary - James Madison

truth is only needed when sufficient reasons make it necessary

His mantra was simple. Do what was necessary, then force a smile onto your face and take another crack at whatever. Buddha said it best. There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance. But Einstein added a great caveat. Information is not knowledge. Absolutely true since the most successful person was the one with the best knowledge

Desperate problems mandated desperate measures.

Selling is a painful necessity, buying is what makes it all worthwhile.

Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love.

If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.

Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

Here's a straightforward initial idea: rules should not be multiplied beyond necessity. Alternatively stated, bad laws drive out respect for good laws. This is the ethical—even legal—equivalent of Occam's razor, the scientist's conceptual guillotine, which states that the simplest possible hypothesis is preferable.

One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.

A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known—that's sin.

Failure is the price we pay for standards and, because mediocrity has consequences both real and harsh, standards are necessary.

When we look at the world, we perceive only what is enough for our plans and actions to work and for us to get by.

Social Institutions Are Necessary—but Insufficient

But most importantly, it means denial of the necessity for courageous individual confrontation with Being. What is going to save you? The totalitarian says, in essence, "You must rely on faith in what you already know." But that is not what saves. What saves is the willingness to learn from what you don't know. That is faith in the possibility of human transformation. That is faith in the sacrifice of the current self for the self that could be.

hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known—that's sin. That's failure to hit the mark. And the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).