quotations about necessity
Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Notebooks
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Moral Sayings
Necessity has no law.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The art of our necessities is strange,
That can make vile things precious.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ
Discours de métaphysique
Necessity is the law of time and place.
ANONYMOUS
The Dictionary of Legal Quotations
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Absalom, Absalom!
Necessity turns lion into fox.
PERSIAN PROVERB
A man can no more justly make use of another's necessity to force him to become his vassal by withholding that relief God requires him to afford to the wants of his brother, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat, offer him death or slavery.
JOHN LOCKE
Two Treatises of Government
To feel that everything is a necessity is a warning sign that you may be avoiding an uncomfortable reality. The truth is that your necessities are covered, for the most part.
HOLIDAY MATHIS
"Horoscopes by Holiday", Bismarck Tribune, July 27, 2017
The law of necessity dispenses with things which otherwise are not lawful to be done.
ANONYMOUS
The Dictionary of Legal Quotations
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
The Human Condition
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
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by necessity, which by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Conduct of Life
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
Necessity can make even cowards valiant.
JOSEPH HALL
Contemplations on the Old Testament
Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity -- by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Notebooks
Sheer necessity -- the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
The Critic
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The Will to Power
Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found.
SALIS
attributed, Day's Collacon