Necessity Quotes

Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?

Necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals, or meaning. Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn't play a role shouldn't exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That's what you call dramaturgy.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

Once one’s vision changes to, ‘I don’t have a sofa in my house’, he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the ‘necessity’.

Fewer the necessities, better your life will be.

Necessity has no law.

Poverty is the origin of invention

Necessity the mother of invention.

Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with needs. Needs are necessity, but wants are luxury.

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.

It is necessary to approach the study of the issue from all sides to find as much information as possible on this issue

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

My education taught me a lot, but nothing I needed to learn.

She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?""In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.