Not even Ares battles against necessity.
Sophocles

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

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Euripides

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
Thales

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Walter Salles

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.
John McCain

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Blaise Pascal

Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they aren't a necessity.
Donald C. Medeiros

People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.
Dick Wolf

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

Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
William of Occam

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
Arnold H. Glasgow

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.
Martin H. Fischer

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de Stael

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.
Lincoln Kirstein

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
Emma Goldman