Necessity Quotes

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Ray Charles

Music, Food, Heart

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein

Made, Problem, Energy

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. Kennedy

God, History, Together

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain

Mother, Taking, Chances

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou

Love, Trust, Women

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde

Bad, Authority, Separate

Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Made, Bargain

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Blessed, Mean

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo

Faith, Nothing, Him

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Health, Men

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Experience, Wise, Stupid

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand

Power, Choice, Choose

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, History, Nor

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau

Money, Soul, Buy

Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato

Mother, Invention

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Emily Dickinson

Smile, Small, Might

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

Progress, Discontent

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison

Failure, Show, Progress

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx

Freedom, Until, Blind

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire

God, Nothing, Made

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
Ayn Rand

Mind, Everything, Religious

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung

Mind, Play, Acting

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hard, Fancy, Conform

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso

Work, Clock, Alarm

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Opinions, United, Majority

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Past, Broken, Word

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas Carlyle

Human, Two, Soul

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
John Adams

Nation, Tyrant, Doubted

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Andrew Jackson

Government, Real, Cannot

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