Delicate Quote by William Faulkner

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

— Pliny the Elder

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

— Pliny the Younger

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

— Luc de Clapiers

Necessity is stronger than duty.

— Seneca the Younger

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

— Horace

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 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 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

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

— Robert E. Lee

Necessity makes heroes of us all.

— Mason Cooley

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe