Necessity gives the law, but does not itself submit to it.
Necessity Quotes
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity. (Richard II)
For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Necessity never has made a good bargain.
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Necessity has no law.