#necessity

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#action #effort #energetic #exercise #force

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

— Democritus

#everything #existing #fruit #necessity #universe

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#head #i #just #me #might

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#democrat #evils #i #immature #impossible

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#atomic #atomic energy #created #energy #existing

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. ↗

— Euripides

#more #necessity #nothing #strength #than

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#fate #firmness #having #love #make

There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now. ↗

— Clint Walker

#bad taste #i #lot #necessity #now

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#carrying #deny #departed #i #justice

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#designer #financial #general #having #license