quotations about necessity
Omission to do what is necessary
Seals a commission to a blank of danger.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Troilus and Cressida
Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity the victorious rebel of all laws.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney
You fight when the necessity arises -- no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.
FRANK HERBERT
Dune
Necessity is a good school.
AL-ANABARI
attributed, Day's Collacon
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention; but is the death of poetical.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
Essays on Men and Manners
A deed of necessity is not sinful.
C. C. GOETNER
attributed, Day's Collacon
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.
SIMONE WEIL
"The Iliad or The Poem of Force"
Necessity often has a brow of despair.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must.
ROGER L'ESTRANGE
Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections