Necessity Quotes
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Necessity (as a term of jurisprudence) is a possible justification for breaking the law. Defendants who uses this defense are arguing that they should not be held liable for a crime, since the actions taken were, for some reason or other, "necessary". Necessity is signified by a ‘must' and its cognates.
What is necessarily so is what must be so, and a necessary truth is one that must be true - that actually couldn't not be true. Philosophers are apt to distinguish different kinds of necessity, e.g. logical necessity (exemplified by ANALYTIC truths), causal necessity, physical necessity, psychological necessity, and metaphysical necessity moral necessity. |
Necessity quotes are the ones which actually define the dire need of a particular being, to achieve something. These quotes define the resulting behavior of that person, when he is in a need of a particular thing so utmost that he can't keep track of his actions i.e. he is not able to decide whether he is doing right or not…
Not even the gods fight against necessity.
Simonides
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas Carlyle
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.
Jonathan Schattke
Necessity has no law.
William Langland
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt
Necessity is stronger far than art.
Aeschylus
Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite, And take it weel, that we may not eschu, And namely that that to us alle is due.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
Oliver Cromwell
No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose To wage against the emnity o' th' air, To be a comrade with the wolf and owl, Necessity's sharp pinch.
William Shakespeare
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx
Without death and decay, how could life go on?
John Burroughs
Necessity has no law.
Benjamin Franklin
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
Oliver Cromwell
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
Dante
Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
Richard Franck
To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity).
Hadrianus Julius
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
Horace
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Dante
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Jonathan Swift
Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
Josh Billings
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Publilius Syrus
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
Bern Williams
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Euripides
Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
Titus Livy
Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
Lucanus
So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
John Milton
Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
Plautus
Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
Quintus Curtius Rufus Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
William Shakespeare
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Thomas Fuller
The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.
William Shakespeare
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
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust
Stern is the visage of necessity.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy.
Scopas
Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
Sir Walter Scott
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
Seneca
Now we sit close about this taper here And call in question our necessities.
William Shakespeare
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
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Jean Toomer
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Roger von Oech
The chalice is ephemeral. Jesus' blood eternal.
Saiom Shriver
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My steps have pressed the flowers, That to the Muses' bowers The eternal dews of Helicon have given: And trod the mountain height, Where Science, young and bright, Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven. Yet have I found no power to vie With thine, severe necessity!
Thomas Love Peacock
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