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“The law of necessity dispenses with things which otherwise are not lawful to be done.”
— Per Cur., Manby v. Scott (1672), 1 Levinz, 4; 2 Sm. L. C. (8th ed.) 446, reported in The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904) edited by James William Norton-Kyshe, p. 182
“The Citizen, of necessity, must speak to citizens, and therein lies its whole trouble!”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Diary of a Writer as translated by Boris Brasol (1949)
“Necessity is the law of the time and action, and things are lawful by necessity, which otherwise are not; "Quicguid necessitas cogit, defendit"; and the law of the time must regulate the law of the place in such public things.”
— Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Littleton of Mounslow, Hampden's Case (1637), 3 How. St. Tr. 927, reported in The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904) edited by James William Norton-Kyshe, p. 182
“I have often been told of people who have been able to continue one and the same dream over three and more successive nights: facts which clearly show that our innermost being, our common foundation, experiences dreams with profound pleasure and joyful necessity.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
“Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.”
— Stern is the visage of necessity.
“Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.”
— E. B. White, in "The Old and the New," in The New Yorker (19 June 1937)

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