Necessity

—  Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat

—  Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor

—  Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence

—  Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer

—  H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer

—  Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer

—  Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer

—  W.H. Auden, 1907-1973, British poet

—  Quintilian, 35-96 AD, Roman rhetorician

—  Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher

—  Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor

—  William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher

—  George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925

—  Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer

—  Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims

—  Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer

—  Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer

—  Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician

—  Alberto Moravia, 1907-1990, Italian writer

—  Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Bohemian writer

—  Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, 1883-1957, Greek writer

—  Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-Indian nun & missionary

—  Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet

—  Théophile Gautier, 1811-1872, French poet & writer

—  D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer

—  James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer

—  Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer

—  Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist

—  Danton, 1759-1794, French revolutionary

—  George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general

—  Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher

—  Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910, Russian writer

—  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

—  Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter

Necessitas non habet legem.

—  Latin phrase

Panem et circenses.

—  Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet

—  Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet

Ανάγκα ουδέ Θεοί μάχονται.

—  Simonides of Ceos, 556-468 BC, Ancient poet & author of epigrams

Αιδώς δ’ ουκ αγαθή κεχρημένω ανδρί παρείναι.

—  Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Odyssey XVII

Κακόν ανάγκη, αλλ’ ουδεμία ανάγκη ζην μετά ανάγκης.

—  Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

Πλειν ανάγκη, ζην ουκ ανάγκη.

—  Plutarch, 47-120 AD, Ancient Greek historian ‐ Πομπήιος

     (general Pompey to sailors who did not want to sail because of a storm)

Πάντες δὲ θεών χατέουσ' άνθρωποι.

—  Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Odyssey III

Ισχυρότατον ανάγκη· κρατεί γαρ πάντων.

—  Thales of Miletus, 643-548 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

Άπαντας αυτών κρείσσονας ανάγκη ποιεί.

—  Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy)

Το της ανάγκης εστί αδήριτον σθένος.

—  Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Prometheus Bound

Άνευ των αναγκαίων αδύνατον και ζην και ευ ζην.

—  Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

—  English proverb

—  English proverb

—  Yiddish proverb