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
• Excess
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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

• 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

• Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

  

  H. Beam Piper
  • Texas
  • Killing
  • Excess

• I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • Done
  • Past
  • Film

• Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Despair
  • Driven
  • Psychedelic

• If you think you fit into a situation, it's worth trying.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Situation

• The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made up his mind to burst. Regardless of whispers and shakes, he swells and becomes discoloured, and yet again swells and becomes discoloured, until the aunt can bear it no longer, but leads him out, with no visible neck, and with his eyes going before him like a prawn's.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Belief
  • Neck
  • Revenges

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Driven
  • Necessity
  • Excess