Necessity
The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
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Necessity Quotations
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
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin
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 F. Kennedy
Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity Translations
necessity in Dutch is noodzaak, noodzakelijkheid
necessity in Portuguese is necessidade
necessity in Spanish is nesesidad, necesidad
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