“Cruel necessity.”
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
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“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.
Lib. 8, Ep. 11, sect. 4; vol. 2, p. 463.
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“Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.”
"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.”
Speech to the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)
Source: The Technological Society (1954), p. xxxii
Anti-Dühring, pt. 1, ch. 11 (1878)
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.
Section 1.1, "Labor"
Workers Councils (1947)