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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Quote by Daniel Defoe about necesity, man

The necessity is the impulse towards an idea and idea is the impulse towards the actiune.

Quote by John Ernst Steinbeck about idea

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Quote by Edward Abbey about human imperfections, spirit

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Quote by John Adams about criminals, nation, rightness

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about value, use

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Quote by Bruce Barton about modesty, absolute, age, olderness, sex, man

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about beginning, common sense, sense

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about instinct, experience, reason

The disposition of a fleet, while proceeding on a voyage, will in some measure depend on particular circumstances; as the difficulty of the navigation; the necessity of dispatch, according to the urgency or importance of the expedition: or the...

Quote by William Falconer about expectation, difficulties, circumstances, measure, enemies

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about film

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about numbers, body, soul, nature, nothing, time

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Quote by Pindar about beauty

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Quote by Friedrich Engels about liberty

Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity.

Quote by Mark Amend about love, circumstances, thinking

There is no freedom without of necessity.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about liberty, paradise

I have always been a passionate spokesman for love, even before I knew what it was. My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one’s life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

Quote by James Broughton about miracle, absolute, reality, love, life