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.

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Sir Terence Conran

Necessity has no law.

— Oliver Cromwell

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

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Necessity does everything well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

— Euripides

Necessity never made a good bargain.

— Benjamin Franklin

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

— Benjamin Franklin

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Necessity is the author of change.

— Tim Hansel

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.

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Thomas H. Huxley

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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.

— Walter Linn

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

— Joseph De Maistre

Necessity has the face of a dog.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Karl Marx

Necessity is the mother of attraction.

— Luke Mckissack

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.

— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Only useless things are indispensable.

— Francis Picabia

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

— William Pitt

Foul water will quench fire.

— English Proverb

What one has to do usually can be done.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

— Sallust

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

— Jonathan Schattke

Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]

— William Shakespeare

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

— Publilius Syrus

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

— Mark Twain

Need is the driving force, Need makes people better -- luck only makes them worse.

— Source Unknown

The superfluous is very necessary.

— Voltaire

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

— Oscar Wilde