Conditions Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing…

— Roger L'Estrange

Necessity does everything well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There ought to be a law against necessity.

— Anonymous

Necessity urges desperate measures.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

— Thomas Paine

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

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

— Anne Carson

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

— Horace

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

— Epicurus

Necessity teaches all things

— German Proverb