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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Necessity

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
Foul water will quench fire.
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
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.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]
Necessity does everything well.
Necessity has no law.
Necessity has the face of a dog.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.
Necessity is the author of change.
Necessity is the mother of attraction.
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Need is the driving force, Need makes people better -- luck only makes them worse.
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
Only useless things are indispensable.
The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
The superfluous is very necessary.
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
What one has to do usually can be done.

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