“Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.”
Joseph Conrad book The Secret Agent
Source: The Secret Agent (1907), Ch. 2
“The luxuries of the present are the necessities of the future.”
Letter to Churchill, dated 16/1/1912, quoted in The World Crisis, Vol 1, 1911-14 (1923), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 139.
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Source: Point Counter Point (1928), Ch. 17
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“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
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