our necessities QUOTES

1 " Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities. "

― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda , The Science of Self-Realization

2 " ‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. "

― Thomas Jefferson

3 " This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities will admit; for we cannot exist long without the destruction of other animal or vegetable beings either in their mature or embryon state. Such is the condition of mortality, that the first law of nature is 'eat, or be eaten.' Hence for the preservation of our existence we may be supposed to have a natural right to kill those brute creatures, which we want to eat, or which want to eat us; but to destroy even insects wantonly shows an unreflecting mind, or a depraved heart. "

― Erasmus Darwin ,

4 " The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious. "

― William Shakespeare , King Lear