Necessity:

1. Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
-- Hannah Arendt
1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

2. We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
-- Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

3. Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.
-- Sir Terence Conran
1931-, British Businessman, Designer

4. Necessity has no law.
-- Oliver Cromwell
1599-1658, Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England

5. Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
-- Elizabeth I
1533-1603, Queen of England and Ireland (1558--1603)

6. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

7. Make yourself necessary to somebody.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

8. Necessity does everything well.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist