Necessity

Requirement, precondition, need, exigency, obligation

QUOTES

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.
Guy Fawkes
1605

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt
speech, 1783

Nothing have I found stronger than Necessity.
Euripides
-440

Necessity never made a good bargain.
Ben Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1735

See Also

History

Arts & Science

Literature

Aesop: The Hare and the Hound, The Crow and the Pitcher

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