#necessity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #necessity, aggregated by home.social.
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https://the.kalvin.click/the-kalvin-click-rebranding-to-survive/
#rebranding #domain #cost #survival #budget #poverty #anxiety #uncertainty #blogging #infrastructure #digital #choice #necessity #hardship #pragmatism
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MEDEA: Women, my task is fixed: as quickly as I may
To kill my children, and start away from this land,
And not, by wasting time, to suffer my children
To be slain by another hand less kindly to them.
Force every way will have it they must die, and since
This must be so, then I, their mother, shall kill them.
Oh, arm yourself in steel, my heart! Do not hang back
From doing this fearful and necessary wrong.
Oh, come, my hand, poor wretched hand, and take the sword,
Take it, step forward to this bitter starting point,
And do not be a coward, do not think of them,
How sweet they are, and how you are their mother. Just for
This one short day be forgetful of your children,
Afterward weep; for even though you will kill them,
They were very dear — Oh, I am an unhappy woman!
(With a cry she rushes into the house.)
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: φίλαι, δέδοκται τοὔργον ὡς τάχιστά μοι
παῖδας κτανούσῃ τῆσδ᾽ ἀφορμᾶσθαι χθονός,
καὶ μὴ σχολὴν ἄγουσαν ἐκδοῦναι τέκνα
ἄλλῃ φονεῦσαι δυσμενεστέρᾳ χερί.
πάντως σφ᾽ ἀνάγκη κατθανεῖν: ἐπεὶ δὲ χρή,
ἀλλ᾽ εἶ᾽ ὁπλίζου, καρδία: τί μέλλομεν
τὰ δεινὰ κἀναγκαῖα μὴ πράσσειν κακά;
ἄγ᾽, ὦ τάλαινα χεὶρ ἐμή, λαβὲ ξίφος,
λάβ᾽, ἕρπε πρὸς βαλβῖδα λυπηρὰν βίου,
καὶ μὴ κακισθῇς μηδ᾽ ἀναμνησθῇς τέκνων,
ὡς φίλταθ᾽, ὡς ἔτικτες, ἀλλὰ τήνδε γε
λαθοῦ βραχεῖαν ἡμέραν παίδων σέθεν
κἄπειτα θρήνει: καὶ γὰρ εἰ κτενεῖς σφ᾽, ὅμως
φίλοι γ᾽ ἔφυσαν: δυστυχὴς δ᾽ ἐγὼ γυνή.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1236ff (431 BC) [tr. Warner (1944)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/84979/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #excuse #filicide #killing #murder #necessity #selfjustification #selfrationalization #tragedy
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-- Francis of Assisi⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrancisofAssisi #Necessity #Possibility
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.
Ellis Peters (1913-1995) English writer, translator [pseud. of Edith Mary Pargeter]
Brother Cadfael’s Penance, ch. 16 (1994)More about this quote: wist.info/peters-ellis/75756/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ellispeters #cadfael #brothercadfael #consequences #cost #costbenefit #decision #decisionmaking #must #necessity #riskanalysis #simplicity
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Beings ought not to be multiplied except out of necessity. (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.)
-- William of Occam (14th Century CE)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamofOccam #Necessity #Parsimony #ProblemSolving
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Beings ought not to be multiplied except out of necessity. (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.)
-- William of Occam (14th Century CE)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamofOccam #Necessity #Parsimony #ProblemSolving
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@hszakher @dalfen @Rastal @killbait
If that comes to pass then the #IranWar would be justified as a War or #Necessity and not of War of Choice. That changes the entire equation. Entire group of countries who have hitherto silently opposed #IranWar and carried out actions which limit #US options will shift into silent support or active help.That is not the worse part, #Israel might push for a balkanisation of #Iran and have its way.
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Necessity never made good bargain.
James Howell (c. 1594 - 1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “New Sayings,” 3rd Century (1659)More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/16348/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #bargain #desperation #necessity #need #requirement #tradeoff
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
Essay (1891-02), “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns)More about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/81828/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oscarwilde #advice #budget #heartlessness #impoverished #insult #necessity #need #poor #poverty #spending #thrift
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Unicursal ALL WILL NECESSITY Propaganda from the Office of the Ministry of Information at Hermetic Library https://hermetic.com/information/all-will-necessity/index
#propaganda #thelema #AleisterCrowley #all #will #necessity #swerve #ultimately #UltimatelyImpossible #impossible #seek #suffer
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Beings ought not to be multiplied except out of necessity. (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.)
-- William of Occam (14th Century CE)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamofOccam #Necessity #Parsimony #ProblemSolving
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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The #phrase "#capitalism breeds #innovation" had been pissing me off lately. Because the best #innovations have been made from either #necessity or a #desire to make a regular task a little easier or the world a littke better, and several of the best innovations have been suppressed or ignored BECAUSE of capitalism and #greed.
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It is true, the bill is said to be founded on necessity; but what is this? Is it not necessity, which has always been the plea of every illegal exertion of power, or exercise of oppression? Is not necessity the pretence of every usurpation? Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt (1759-1806) British Prime Minister (1804-06) [William Pitt the Younger]
Speech (1793-11-18), House of Commons, LondonMore info about this quote: wist.info/pitt-william/3164/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williampitt #control #emergency #excuse #government #imperative #justification #necessity #need #oppression #power #pretense #security #servility #tyranny
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
-- Hegel⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Hegel #Freedom #Necessity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
He who imagines he can do without the world, deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him, is still more mistaken.
[Celui qui croit pouvoir trouver en soi-même de quoi se passer de tout le monde se trompe fort; mais celui qui croit qu’on ne peut se passer de lui se trompe encore davantage.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶201 (1665-1678) [pub. Donaldson (1783), ¶93]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #LaRochefoucauld #absence #autonomy #dependence #dowithout #independence #indispensability #interdependence #necessity #selfsufficiency
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Thare iz no man so necessary in this world, but that when he dies hiz plase iz quickly filled, and he iz soon forgotten.
[There is no man so necessary in this world, but that when he dies his place is quickly filled, and he is soon forgotten.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 281 “Variety: Bred and Butter” (1874)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/78261/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #essential #forgotten #humancondition #indispensability #mementomori #memorial #mortality #necessity #replacement #vanity
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MENELAUS: But so it has to be.
For the saying is not mine, but it was wisely said,
that nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
[ΜΕΝΕΛΈΩΣ: ἀλλ᾽ ἀναγκαίως ἔχει.
λόγος γάρ ἐστιν οὐκ ἐμός, σοφὸν δ᾽ ἔπος,
δεινῆς ἀνάγκης οὐδὲν ἰσχύειν πλέον.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Helen [Ἑλένη], l. 512ff (412 BC) [tr. Lattimore (1956)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/78063/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #helen #compulsion #constraint #fate #necessity #needful #requirement
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It is dangerous to attack a man whom you have deprived of every means of escape except by fighting, for necessity is a violent schoolmistress.
[Il fait dangereux assaillir un homme, à qui vous avez osté tout autre moyen d’eschapper que par les armes : car c’est une violente maistresse d’escole que la necessité.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1572), “Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment [De l’incertitude de nostre jugement],” Essays, Book 1, ch. 47 (1.47) (1595) [tr. Cohen (1958)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #attack #backintoacorner #cornered #desperation #escape #fighting #laststand #necessity #violence #weapons
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YEVGRAF: I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the Party is beneath the dignity of any man. And the Party was right: one man desperate for a bit of fuel is pathetic; five million people desperate for fuel will destroy a city.
Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist
Doctor Zhivago, film (1965)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bolt-robert/77711/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #dignity #necessity #pilfering #poverty #scavenging #want
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You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.
Ellis Peters (1913-1995) English writer, translator [pseud. of Edith Mary Pargeter, who also wrote under the names John Redfern, Jolyon Carr, Peter Benedict]
Brother Cadfael’s Penance, ch. 16 (1994)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/peters-ellis/75756/
#quote #quotes #quotation #consequences #costbenefit #decisionmaking #must #necessity #riskanalysis #simplicity #cost #decision
