Quotes About Necessity

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Vice is as much a part of human nature as folly, and pornography may be as necessary to vent vice as satire is to vent folly.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

Work is creativity accompanied by the comforting realization that one is bringing forth something really good and necessary, with a conviction that a sudden, arbitrary cessation would cause a sensitive void, produce a loss.

Want is the mother of industry.

Nuk luftohet nje fatalitet, e te arsyetosh per te eshte akoma me e kote

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

Sometimes, you didn't get what you wanted. But if you had all you needed? Life was good.

Life is about doing what is necessary, and you did.

Fantasies were not what she needed right now. What she needed was… A real bathroom with running water.

I've never really liked directing. I became a director because I didn't like directors telling me how to edit, and I became a writer because I had to write something in order to be able to direct something. So I did everything out of necessity, but what I really like is editing.

Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results.

I didn't bring my peremptory tone to bear in regard to what you'd just said about the unnecessariness of sleep but only, only , mind you, because of the fact that I absolutely, simply, purely and without any whatevers have to sleep now, I mean, man, my eyes are closing, they're redhot, sore, tired, beat...

Do you know that the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated, since it is a necessity prejudiced in its own favor. ...There is plenty more life demanding to be born. ...He was worth nothing to the world. The supply is too large.

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.

Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.

I was in government for 13 years and in that time only once met the head of the German security services, and that was because he was an old friend. Otherwise, I carefully avoided having anything to do with these people. They are unavoidable but not really necessary.

I prefer not to fly, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.