Quotes about necessity

"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."

Arendt, Hannah on necessity   

"We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity."

Camus, Albert on necessity   

"Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness."

Conran, Sir Terence on necessity   

"Necessity has no law."

Cromwell, Oliver on necessity   

"Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word."

Elizabeth I on necessity   

"Make yourself necessary to somebody."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on necessity   

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on necessity   

"Necessity does everything well."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on necessity   

"We do what we must, and call it by the best names."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on necessity
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"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity."

Euripides on necessity   

"Necessity never made a good bargain."

Franklin, Benjamin on necessity
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"Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities."

Franklin, Benjamin on necessity   

"To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on necessity   

"Necessity is the author of change."

Hansel, Tim on necessity   

"The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities."

Hoffer, Eric on necessity   

"Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?"

Huxley, Thomas H. on necessity   

"If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on necessity   

"It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to."

Linn, Walter on necessity   

"Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain."

Maistre, Joseph De on necessity   

"Necessity has the face of a dog."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on necessity   

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

Marx, Karl on necessity   

"Necessity is the mother of attraction."

Mckissack, Luke on necessity   

"Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on necessity   

"Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on necessity
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"Only useless things are indispensable."

Picabia, Francis on necessity   

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

Pitt, William on necessity   

"Foul water will quench fire."

Proverb, English on necessity   

"What one has to do usually can be done."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on necessity   

"Necessity makes even the timid brave."

Sallust on necessity   

"Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife."

Schattke, Jonathan on necessity   

"Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]"

Shakespeare, William on necessity
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"Necessity knows no law except to conquer."

Syrus, Publilius on necessity   

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"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."

Twain, Mark on necessity
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"Need is the driving force, Need makes people better -- luck only makes them worse."

Unknown, Source on necessity   

"The superfluous is very necessary."

Voltaire on necessity   

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."

Wilde, Oscar on necessity
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