When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
Thomas Clarkson

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
Moses Mendelssohn

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon Redon

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
Bruce Beresford

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
Elizabeth George

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
Muhammed Iqbal

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

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
Maimonides