“Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.”
Rose Macaulay
“Our necessities never equal our wants”
Benjamin Franklin
“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”
“Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice”
Vauvenargues Marquis de
“Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.”
Lewis H. Lapham
“What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing”
Seneca
“In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.”
Raoul Vaneigem
