NECESSITY QUOTES II

quotations about necessity

Sheer necessity -- the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

The Critic

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The art of our necessities is strange,
That can make vile things precious.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear

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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


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

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Necessity has no law.

FRANÇOIS RABELAIS

Gargantua and Pantagruel

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The law of necessity dispenses with things which otherwise are not lawful to be done.

ANONYMOUS

The Dictionary of Legal Quotations


Most of us do not have incomes large enough to provide both the things we need and the things we want. We are forced to choose between our necessities and our luxuries. And, very foolishly, we choose to offer up the luxuries. Thus our existence becomes dull and monotonous. We can hardly be said really to live: our lives are lived for us--cut out and sewed together by the habits and customs of the class to which we belong.

BRUCE FAIRCHILD BARTON

More Power to You


Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Enchiridion

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Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Moral Sayings

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Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Notebooks

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Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS

De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni


Necessity can make even cowards valiant.

JOSEPH HALL

Contemplations on the Old Testament


Now sit we close about this taper here,
And call in question our necessities.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Julius Caesar

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Necessity turns lion into fox.

PERSIAN PROVERB


As for "necessity" not based on reason but on pleasure, he declared that it was a sign of a spirit that was extinguished.

THOMAS OF CELANO

The Life of Saint Francis


Necessity is the law of time and place.

ANONYMOUS

The Dictionary of Legal Quotations

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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

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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Discours de métaphysique

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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia

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Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities ... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.

OLIVER CROMWELL

speech to Parliament, September 12, 1654

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