The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

-Algren, Nelson
  Preface to reprint of Chicago: City On The Make (first published1951).

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.29.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater licensetothis formidable engine, inorder to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

-Cooper,James Fenimore
  The American Democrat,'On the Press'.

Thus first necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplished sofa last.

-Cowper,William
  The Task, bk.1,'The Sofa', l.86^8.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

-Defoe, Daniel
  Moll Flanders.

   I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.

-Euripides
Alcestis, l.965 (translated by D Kovacs,1994).

Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.

-Fadiman, Clifton
  Party of One,'From My Notebooks'.

   Necessity never made a good bargain.

-Franklin, Benjamin
  Poor Richard's  Almanack,  Apr.

She even sighed offensively†as if she meant to charge me with the necessity of doing so.

-Gerhardie,William Alexander
  Futility, pt.3, ch.3.

Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.

-Huxley,T(homas) H(enry)
  Man's Place in Nature (rev edn), preface.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

-Milton,John
  God. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.7, l.172^3.

Not willingly, but tangl'd in the fold Paradise Lost Of dire necessity.

-Milton,John
Samson  Agonistes, l.1665^6.

Severe and terrible punishments are enacted against theft, when it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.

-More, SirThomas
  Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

But who can turn the stream of destiny, Or break the chain of strong necessity?

-Spenser, Edmund
  Night argues against the necessity of faith. The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 5, stanza 25.

In rerum natura nullum datur contingens; sed omnia ex necessitate divinae naturae determinata sunt ad certo modo existandum et operandum. In the nature of things nothing contingent isgranted, but all things are determined by the necessity of divine nature for existing and working in a certain way.

-Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza
  Ethics, bk.1, prop.29.

Necessity never makes prostitution the business of men's lives; though numberless are the women who are thus rendered systematically vicious.

-Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin
  AVindication of the Rights ofWoman, pt.1, ch.4.