It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
Charles Ives

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
Thomas Aquinas

It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.
Slobodan Milosevic

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Robert Motherwell

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.
Enrico Caruso

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

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Hannah Arendt

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Jean Toomer

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
Emma Goldman

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
Jacques Ellul

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau

Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Bill Watterson

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.
Martin Van Buren

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.
James Broughton

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Thomas Carlyle

Necessity does the work of courage.
Nicholas M. Butler

Necessity has no law.
Oliver Cromwell

Necessity has the face of a dog.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez