Can do Quote by Walter Pater

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

— Jose Rizal

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

— Jose Rizal

Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.

— Philip James Bailey

Generically, wars in necessity are wars where, I think, the vital interest of the nation are at stake, in which there are no viable…

— Richard N. Haass

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

The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is…

— William J. Brennan

Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Wars of necessity are essentially unavoidable. They involve the most important national interests, a lack of promising alternatives to the use of force, and…

— Richard N. Haass

The force of necessity is irresistible.

— Aeschylus

Necessity teaches all things

— German Proverb

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor,…

— Hannah Arendt

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

— Luc de Clapiers