Necessity Quotes

"Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it." "Discontent is the first necessity of progress." "Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress." "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children" "You can't do it better without the equipment the actors need." "Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity" "The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct." "The wild is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit " "One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations." "Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity" "Never think that war no matter how necessary nor how justified is not a crime" "Necessity is the mother of invention" "The actual is the possible in so far as it is determined." "Memory and habit are the two things you can't live without." "Rest is not a luxury, it's a necessity for reclaiming productivity and joy" "Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation" "Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale." "Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts" "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother"