So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

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