Necessity is stronger far than art.
Aeschylus
Quotes , Source: Prometheus Chained (l. 513)
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Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary
necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the
Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
Oliver Cromwell
Quotes , Source: Speeches--To Parliament
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
Quotes , Source: Speeches--The India Bill
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Necessity--thou best of peacemakers,
As well as surest prompter of invention.
Sir Walter Scott
Quotes , Source: Peveril of the Peak (heading of ch. XXVI)
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Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.
Jonathan Schattke
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It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.
Walter Linn
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
Oscar Wilde
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Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife
Jonathan Schattke
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow
Dwight David Eisenhower
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Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessite,
And take it weel, that we may not eschu,
And namely that that to us alle is due.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Quotes , Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 2,182), The Knight's Tale
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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or
whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know
it myself.
Oliver Cromwell
Quotes , Source: Speeches--To Parliament
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