The need is absolute.
4 seconds sound clip from the Lawrence of Arabia movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 03:29:39 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Why is there no electricity?
- I have been to that electrical house. There are three large machines.
- So. One of them is burning. They are of an incredible size, but helpless.
- Let them burn. What need of telephones?
- Then we need the English engineers.
- No. Take English engineers and you take English government. Take...
- Where?
- It is not a district that matters.
- Then in God's name, use the fire brigade!
- We have tried, but there is no force in the water.
- The Ruala do not carry water.
- What else are they good for?
[...]