In a corner of your inmost mind you think, in spite of all you say, that it is not necessary for you , that it shows magnanimity on your part to admit and even to advocate it, more especially as science on its part does not exhibit this magnanimity in regard to your opinion!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The child, who knows nothing of these, can have no merit in giving; he gives without charity, without kindness; he is almost ashamed to give, for, to judge by your practice and his own, he thinks it is only children who give, and that there is no need for charity when we are grown up.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And is it not necessary for this end to destroy the more advanced of the machines which are in use at present, though it is admitted that they are in themselves harmless?
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

But there is no necessity for supposing that all the parts of any being have been simultaneously modified.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Moreover, in war that admits it is war, your agents, your army, are better able to handle crowds of prisoners than native police and constabulary, and the percentage of innocent who suffer with the guilty in such war will be far less; whereas the contrary is true of war—waged by constabulary checked by courts—which pretends that a state of peace exists, i.e. , which pretends there is no need for declaring martial law and calling on your army.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

“There is no need for you to insult me, Natalie,” I sighed, feeling a sudden rush of humility.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Passing over the walk where I had seen the shadow, I now noticed, for the first time, a little bright object, lying on the clean gravel, under the light of the moon.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Considering the circumstances there is no occasion for a reduction, considering that there is no pealing there is no occasion for an obligation, considering that there is no outrage there is no necessity for any reparation, considering that there is no particle sodden there is no occasion for deliberation.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

“It is not nice for you, sir, to spend the night in here,” said the constable; “come into the other room.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Dry rot is no name for it.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

There is no necessity for hurry.
— from The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke

Poor little fellow, he is not a healthy child at all; he is now nearly five years old, and looks like a mere baby, though papa says he will come out all right after a while.
— from The White Rose of Memphis by William C. (Clark) Falkner

“No, no,” said Ned, “there is no need for quite so much hurry as all that, and I must beg that you will handle those cases carefully or their contents will be spoilt or wasted and two human lives placed in jeopardy, which you , Williams, I know, would be the last to wish.
— from The Missing Merchantman by Harry Collingwood

His native haughtiness could not bear a superiority so visible; and whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating: and having less command of his passions than the other, he was evermore the subject of his perhaps indecent ridicule: so that every body, either from love or fear, siding with his antagonist, he had a most uneasy time of it while both continued in the same college.—It was the less wonder therefore that a young man who is not noted for the gentleness of his temper, should resume an antipathy early begun, and so deeply rooted.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

But this dreadful addition is not necessary for the conclusion which I am here wishing to draw.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

I recognise the fact that I can no longer benefit by—your boundless charity to the needy, and——" "Surely, Signor Ricordo, there is no need for you to leave The Homestead."
— from The Man Who Rose Again by Joseph Hocking

There is no necessity for a door-mat: people with muddy boots, it is to be presumed, were sent round to the back.
— from They and I by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

There is no need for a trial.
— from For The Honor Of France 1891 by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

It might as well be said, that, in receiving the ordinance of baptism, vows are taken on, which include every case that could occur, and that, therefore, after that there is no necessity for waiting on the ordinance of the supper;—or that the waiting on that ordinance on one occasion would afford a reason for neglecting both the dispensation of it and of the ordinance of baptism ever thereafter.
— from The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

In diamond beads; and over the breast Of the quivering lake he spread A coat of mail, that it need not fear The downward point of many a spear That he hung on its margin, far and near, Where a rock could rear its head.
— from Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various