Quotes on Necessity

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or just, you know, things that take us away from the big questions that we have, those are the things that I think urge us to think about what a poem can offer.

War should be not a war of choice; it should be a war of necessity. And it should be a last resort.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe it is his will that we should hold absolute mastery over time, so as to devote it mainly to intellectual and moral improvement, domestic enjoyment, and social intercourse.

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.

We are producing something people can live without. But we need to keep thinking what would make our products a priority purchase even if they are not a necessity. If we stop doing that, no matter how successful Nintendo is at the moment, things will start going wrong in no time.

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

A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.