Aristotle Quotes

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

Aristotle

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

  

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

  

  Larry Wall
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• I am not driven.

  

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

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  

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

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
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• 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
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• 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.

  

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

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Religion
  • Mankind
  • Necessity

• Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Excess

• Why does love, even such love as he claims to practise, need the spectacle of beauty to bring it to life? What, in the abstract, do shapely legs have to do with love, or for that matter with desire? Or is that just the nature of nature, about which one does not ask questions?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Why
  • Nature

• Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Faith
  • Limits
  • Guide

• 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

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Driven
  • Necessity
  • Excess