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• Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

  Bernie Sanders

  Struggle, Kids, College

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from Jun 24, 2015

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• We demand a non-violent world where human security is the basis of our common global security. People have the right to live in a world where the basic needs of all peoples are addressed. No more military attacks. No more war.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Military, War, People

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• Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it.

  Peter Singer

  Real, Cutting, Thinking

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• The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Honesty

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• The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male is recreational companionship; for a female, communication and conversation. The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness. The fourth basic need of a male is domestic support; for a female, financial support. The fifth basic need of a male is admiration and respect; for a woman, family commitment.

  Myles Munroe

  Honesty, Communication, Commitment

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage”, p.166, Destiny Image Publishers

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• The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.

  Ayn Rand

  Independence, Mind, Needs

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.63, Penguin

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• There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

  Banksy

  Art, Sex, Revenge

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• To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the waters to those who live in water, giving abundantly to all the basic needs of life, not as a private possession, not restricted by law, not divided by boundaries, but as common to all, amply and in rich measure.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Spring, Humility, Air

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• "Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'"

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Spiritual, Food, Jail

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, People, Different

  "Syria's al-Assad speaks: Why he blames U.S. for truce's demise, and says war will 'drag on'". Interview, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 22, 2016.

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• There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can address the historical, structural and ideological conditions at the core of the violence being waged by the corporate and repressive state and to make clear that government under the dictatorship of market sovereignty and power is no longer responsive to the most basic needs of young people - or most people for that matter.

  Henry Giroux

  Artist, Government, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We can begin ever so modestly. We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs. . .I fear that so many feel that a long-term food supply is so far beyond their reach that they make no effort at all. . .Begin in a small way, ... and gradually build toward a reasonable objective.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Long, Effort, Three

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• Studies say great harm can be done to a person if the connection between mother and child isn´t there from the start. Love is a basic need/instinct, and people can get quite desperate and become destructive if they don´t have it.

  Anne Sewitsky

  Mother, Children, Love Is

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I would say love is something everybody talks about, and the need for love is one of the most basic needs of man, namely the experience of union with another being - of becoming one with another being.

  Erich Fromm

  Love Is, Men, Becoming One

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.

  Peter Singer

  Clothes, People, House

  Peter Singer (2000). “Marx: A Very Short Introduction”, p.121, OUP Oxford

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• The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

  Sherrod Brown

  Struggle, Average, Income

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• Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

  John Bradshaw

  Moving, Healthy, Needs

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.7, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?

  Riane Eisler

  Long, People, Care

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• Men have two basic needs. Neither of them, no matter what they say, is sex. They need love and they need work. And work takes priority over love. If a woman could know only one fact about men and work, it should be that work is the most seductive mistress most men ever have.

  Joyce Brothers

  Sex, Men, Two

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• If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.

  John Pilger

  Real, School, People

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• [Saddam] built up a massive war machine while neglecting the basic needs of his own people.

  George W. Bush

  War, People, Needs

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• The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.

  Aristotle

  Wisdom, Moving, Responsibility

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• If you're worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.

  Tony Hsieh

  Stress, Roof Over Your Head, Needs

  "Big Think Interview With Tony Hsieh". Interview with Peter Hopkins, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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• I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

  Edward Teller

  Believe, Ambition, Soul

  Edward Teller (1987). “Better a shield than a sword: perspectives on defense and technology”, Free Pr

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• I was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this bar and tried to find out what happened, and the bartender said "it's only the American and the Arabs. They're not big football nations." So the feeling was, what's it got to do with us? Why are football games being cancelled in Europe? The intelligentsia in the West feel like they have to figure out the significance of it all, whereas people have other pressing concerns, related to basic needs.

  Irvine Welsh

  Football, Europe, Games

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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