Aesop Quotes

At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't think you can help but be involved.

Necessity has no law.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

In war time you will do almost anything. You just have to.

Necessity urges desperate measures.

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

Necessity knows no Sunday.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

Necessity has its own rules

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it.

If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive.

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

There's nothing like desperation to sharpen your sense of focus.

When folks are in desperate times - say, like being stuck in the middle of a long-running interplanetary war - they grasp onto anything that might keep them afloat.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

I'm not saying looting is good, ... But I'm saying surely at a time when your child needs diapers and you need food, when does looting stop.

There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.