"Necessity, the tyrant's plea" — John Milton

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• Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always… — 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… — Eric Bana
• The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to… — John Adams
• No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath… — 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… — John Berger
• Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with… — Annie Besant
• Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though… — Annie Besant
• Physical contact is a human necessity. — David Byrne
• The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity. — Lord Byron

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