Necessity Quotes

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Necessity knows no rules. — August Strindberg
The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary… — Ambrose
It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed. — Michel de Montaigne
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and… — Wendell Berry
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows… — Anton Chekhov
It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. — Thomas Paine
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. — Horace
Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a… — James Whistler
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Necessity is a violent school-mistress. — Michel de Montaigne
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books… — Pearl S. Buck
I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it.… — Abraham Lincoln
Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity. — Plato
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this… — John Dewey
What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way… — Pablo Picasso
Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. — Walter Scott
Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should… — Pablo Picasso
O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where… — Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and… — Charles Kingsley
Necessity makes dastards valiant men. — Robert Herrick
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is… — Blaise Pascal

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