(439 quotes found)
“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
“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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
“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 Alva Edison
“Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife”
Jonathan Schattke
“It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”
Victor Hugo
“Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice”
Ayn Rand
“We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.”
Albert Camus
“There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men,out of necessity, are forced by circumstance to meet.”
Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr. (Bull)
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
G. K. Chesterton
