Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“How dismal the necessity of birth! how miserable the necessity of living! how hard the necessity of death!”
O neccessitas abiecta nascendi, vivendi misera dura moriendi.
Sidonius Apollinaris (430–489) Gaulish poet, aristocrat and bishop
Lib. 8, Ep. 11, sect. 4; vol. 2, p. 463.
Epistularum
“Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.”
W. H. Auden book Forewords and Afterwords
"A Poet of the Actual", p. 266
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Context: Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.
“Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.”
Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
Speech to the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
Reported remarks over the body of Charles I after his execution (January 1649), as quoted in Oliver Cromwell : A History (1895) by Samuel Harden Church, p. 321
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation (1943)
Context: The respect inspired by the link between man and the reality alien to this world can make itself evident to that part of man which belongs to the reality of this world.
The reality of this world is necessity. The part of man which is in this world is the part which is in bondage to necessity and subject to the misery of need.
The one possibility of indirect expression of respect for the human being is offered by men's needs, the needs of the soul and of the body, in this world.
Antonie Pannekoek (1873–1960) Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist
Section 1.1, "Labor"
Workers Councils (1947)
