Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit. . . . this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.
Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made a religion; moral goodness and the law of the masters are fused into one and the same divinity. The historical hero of the schoolroom is the man who obeys the law, and defends it against rebels.
Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.
New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention
God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.
Art is a luxury but also a necessity.
Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.
There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society. Previously there was a necessity for a little bit of screaming and shouting just to get it into the conversation.
From where I sit, battles are hard. I’ve written my share. Sometimes I employ the private’s viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader right into the middle of the carnage. That’s vivid and visceral, but of necessity chaotic, and it is easy to lose all sense of the battle as a whole. Sometimes I go with the general’s point of view instead, looking down from on high, seeing lines and flanks and reserves. That gives a great sense of the tactics, of how the battle is won or lost, but can easily slide into abstraction.
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.
I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.
Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
No one will ever make necessity not happen.