Necessity, the tyrant’s plea.
Necessity Quotes
Necessity teaches all things.
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws.
That which necessity compels she excuses.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
To make a virtue of necessity.
Necessity gives the law, but does not itself submit to it.
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity. (Richard II)
For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.
