But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision. Steven Brust
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. Max Eastman
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble. Agatha Christie
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. Karl Heinrich Marx
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. Bruce Barton
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 Alva Edison
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 wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. Cicero
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. Oscar Wilde