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Necessity Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to…
- In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;…
- The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is…
- Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of…
- A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by…
- A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore,…
- The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
- Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion…
- Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence…
More Necessity Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. — Saint Augustine
- Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. — Edward Abbey
- Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone… — Eric Bana
- The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a… — John Adams
- No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank… — Bruce Barton
- The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. — Robert Benchley
- Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order… — John Berger
- Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole,… — Annie Besant
- Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake… — Annie Besant
- Physical contact is a human necessity. — David Byrne
- The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity. — Lord Byron