“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
Augustine of Hippo
“Morals being mostly only social habits and circumstantial necessities.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.”
“Our necessities never equal our wants”
Benjamin Franklin
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
Oscar Wilde
“Make yourself necessary to somebody.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity”
Friedrich Nietzsche
