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Necessity

Quotes including the word “Necessity”.

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Democritus

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Charles Fourier

“The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.”

Kazantzakis

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

Rosa Luxemburg

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Machiavelli

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

Plato

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proudhon

I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will.

Pythagoras

Life is defined by the Law of Force and Necessity (the more you beat necessity the stronger you get)

Thales

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Theocritus

Necessity is the spur of the fine arts.

Leo Tolstoy

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Leon Trotsky

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Jules Verne

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.