Necessity Quotes

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.

Necessity is the excuse for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of the tyrant and the creed of the slave.
William Pitt

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Necessity is the author of change
Tim Hansel

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Necessity teaches all things

Necessity does the work of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler

Our necessities never equal our wants

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
Anna C. Brackett

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
Lord Alfred Tennyson







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