Quotes About Necessity

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest end if need be.

Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, " I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to give people newer and fresh rituals. A party of thinkers must undertake to do this. Old rituals must be rejected and new ones substituted.

Inequality is the very basis of creation. At the same time the forces struggling to obtain equality are as much a necessity of creation as those which destroy it.

What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

The single non-negotiable thing life requires is water.

astrophysicist Christopher McKay puts it: "The single non-negotiable thing life requires is water.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

The woman is perfected.Her deadBody wears the smile of accomplishment,The illusion of a Greek necessityFlows in the scrolls of her toga,Her bareFeet seem to be saying:We have come so far, it is over.

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

Necessity, it turns out, isn't really the mother of invention; it's the mother of the process that turns an invention into a product, and in late-eighteenth-century Europe, that mother was ready.

Mr. Hamilton, I do need her." He shook his head. "You don't even know yet what need is.