Necessity never made good bargain.
James Howell (c. 1594 - 1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “New Sayings,” 3rd Century (1659)
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
Essay (1891-02), “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns)
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Unicursal ALL WILL NECESSITY Propaganda from the Office of the Ministry of Information at Hermetic Library https://hermetic.com/information/all-will-necessity/index
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The price for absolute freedom from necessity is, in a sense, life itself, or rather the substitution of vicarious life for real life. […] The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the “easy life of the gods” would be a lifeless life.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Human Condition, Part 3 “Labor,” ch. 16 (1958)
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Beings ought not to be multiplied except out of necessity. (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.)
-- William of Occam (14th Century CE)
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/115547499309561097
#necessity has #inventions for daughters.
To reduce the use of #oil as fuel in the #UK reduce the amount of oil entering the country.
Most effectively done by reducing the rate it enters, close a berth or a port, turn down the pumps and taps on pipelines, accept deliveries only on weekdays, etc.
(And increase the amounts we store, and the places we store it in, and the actual volume between import and end-user, for security).
Then we shall work with less of it and feel clever.
Necessity is the tightening of infinity into a single line.
Freedom folding into focus, pretending there is no other way.
It births direction, not truth.
When seen, it loosens — and what seemed required reveals itself as choice already made.
It is true, the bill is said to be founded on necessity; but what is this? Is it not necessity, which has always been the plea of every illegal exertion of power, or exercise of oppression? Is not necessity the pretence of every usurpation? Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt (1759-1806) British Prime Minister (1804-06) [William Pitt the Younger]
Speech (1793-11-18), House of Commons, London
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
-- Hegel
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Необхідність не знає ...
Нікколо Макіавеллі
La necessità non ...
Niccolò Machiavelli
https://buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/gobesuzija
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
He who imagines he can do without the world, deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him, is still more mistaken.
[Celui qui croit pouvoir trouver en soi-même de quoi se passer de tout le monde se trompe fort; mais celui qui croit qu’on ne peut se passer de lui se trompe encore davantage.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶201 (1665-1678) [pub. Donaldson (1783), ¶93]
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Power of Need Over Virtue - Harvey Mansfield and Johnathan Bi
A quotation from Josh Billings
Thare iz no man so necessary in this world, but that when he dies hiz plase iz quickly filled, and he iz soon forgotten.
[There is no man so necessary in this world, but that when he dies his place is quickly filled, and he is soon forgotten.]
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 281 “Variety: Bred and Butter” (1874)
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MENELAUS: But so it has to be.
For the saying is not mine, but it was wisely said,
that nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
[ΜΕΝΕΛΈΩΣ: ἀλλ᾽ ἀναγκαίως ἔχει.
λόγος γάρ ἐστιν οὐκ ἐμός, σοφὸν δ᾽ ἔπος,
δεινῆς ἀνάγκης οὐδὲν ἰσχύειν πλέον.]
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Helen [Ἑλένη], l. 512ff (412 BC) [tr. Lattimore (1956)]
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It is dangerous to attack a man whom you have deprived of every means of escape except by fighting, for necessity is a violent schoolmistress.
[Il fait dangereux assaillir un homme, à qui vous avez osté tout autre moyen d’eschapper que par les armes : car c’est une violente maistresse d’escole que la necessité.]
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1572), “Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment [De l’incertitude de nostre jugement],” Essays, Book 1, ch. 47 (1.47) (1595) [tr. Cohen (1958)]
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YEVGRAF: I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the Party is beneath the dignity of any man. And the Party was right: one man desperate for a bit of fuel is pathetic; five million people desperate for fuel will destroy a city.
Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist
Doctor Zhivago, film (1965)
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The ongoing attempt to understand the function of #dance and #culture. Is it, as in #Ukraine, more about #necessity than entertainment? On tanz.dance, Polina Bulat provides the answer: https://tanz.dance/in-war/?lang=en Maciel Kuzminski's ‘Élán’, in Leiden, Theater Ins Blau, 5 June
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