Aristotle Quotes

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

Aristotle

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• Necessity
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• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Necessity

• We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Revolution
  • Socialism
  • Our

• My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Books

• We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Agree
  • Compromise
  • Necessity

• I am not driven.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Driven

• India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Trade
  • India
  • Excess

• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Wisdom
  • Habit
  • Necessity

• I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
  • Driven

• A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

  

  T. S. Kalyanaraman
  • Luxury
  • Necessity
  • Jet

• Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Always
  • Door
  • Necessity

• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Energy
  • Problem
  • Necessity

• Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Life
  • Value
  • Excess

• Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
  • Political
  • Peace

• What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Success
  • Control
  • Cold

• Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Children
  • Family
  • City

• People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • People
  • Wall
  • Abuse

• I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Great
  • Money
  • Crazy

• To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Religion
  • Mankind
  • Necessity

• I just drove. I could have driven forever. I don’t know how I managed to find my spot in the desert, but I found it. It was as if I had a compass hidden somewhere inside me. One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Desert
  • Driven
  • Instincts

• I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.

  

  Kanye West
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Believe
  • Reason
  • Baby

• On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

  

  George Gilder
  • Wealth
  • Creating
  • Victim

• The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people’s lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.

  

  Chris Killip
  • History
  • Moment
  • Make

• The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

  

  Aristotle
  • Driven
  • Necessity
  • Excess