Aristotle Quotes
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.Aristotle
Quotes to Explore
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe -
We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
Harold Wilson -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen -
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall -
I am not driven.
Cameron Mackintosh -
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.
Saint Augustine -
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
Randy Schekman -
A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
T. S. Kalyanaraman -
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.
Andrew Cuomo -
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 -
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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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 -
I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.
Gautama Buddha -
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier -
Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.
Vincent Van Gogh -
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
Aristotle