Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
Sir Philip Sidney
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin
Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Honore de Balzac
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Necessity teaches all things
German Proverb
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe
The practical mastery of the logic or of the imminent necessity of a game - a mastery acquired by experience of the game, and one which works outside conscious control and discourse (in the way that. for instance, techniques of the body do).
Pierre Bourdieu