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.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

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.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs my kidneys my liver my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity which is where I found myself for a large part of my life it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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

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.

The wise are instructed by reason average minds by experience the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

No one can get an education for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Necessity does the work of courage.

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.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

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.

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

No sex age or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.