Break Quote by Blaise Pascal

Necessity makes laws, but does not obey them

— Woodrow T Wilson

His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is…

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Oliver Cromwell

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the…

— John Locke

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

— Michel de Montaigne

Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.

— Publilius Syrus

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

— William Pitt The Younger

“He had many names, but one nature, and this unique nature made him subject to certain laws not binding upon ordinary persons. In a…

— John Brunner

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

— Samuel Johnson

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

— Walter Raleigh