“Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.”
Cher
“Not necessity, not desire /no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything /health, food, a place to live, entertainment /they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
Dalai Lama
“Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit”
Edward Abbey
“There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men,out of necessity, are forced by circumstance to meet.”
Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr. (Bull)