Human Needs Quotes

• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Relationship, Family

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

  Banksy

  Art, Sex, Revenge

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• No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Destiny, Suffering, Trying

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

  Aristotle

  Over You, Needs, Purpose

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• Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

  Lily Tomlin

  Complaining, Needs, Language

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  Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Miracle, Needs

  Wesley L. Duewel (1986). “Touch the World Through Prayer”, p.26, Zondervan

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• Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

  Peggy Noonan

  Needs, Moral, Aids

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• Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity

  Eckhart Tolle

  Essence, Identity, Needs

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• Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Men, Creative

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• The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

  William James

  Needs, Appreciated, Humans

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• When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

  Abraham Maslow

  Pain, Self Esteem, Stress

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Kids, Writing

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• People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

  Paola Antonelli

  Badass, Attitude, Technology

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• If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether its a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

  Peter Zumthor

  Simple, Space, Mountain

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• The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of generate markets means that disposibility and waste have become the spine of the system. To consume means, literally, to destroy or expend, and in the garbage crisis we confront the underlying truth of a society in which enormous productive capacities and market forces have harnessed human needs and desires, without regard to the long or even short-term future of life on the planet.

  Stuart Ewen

  Mean, Long, Desire

  Stuart Ewen (1999). “All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Celebration is a kind of food we all need in our lives, and each individual brings a special recipe or offering, so that together we will make a great feast. Celebration is a human need that we must not, and can not, deny. It is richer and fuller when many work and then celebrate together.

  Corita Kent

  Offering, Special, Together

  Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.326, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Because we haven’t been taught to appreciate and love ourselves in this way, we don’t feel like we deserve self-care and pleasure. Instead, we cling to our To Do lists and sacrifice our health and well-being for the sake of others. Then, when we feel deprived of our basic human need for relaxation and enjoyment, we turn to food as our sole source of pleasure. When we then try to deprive ourselves of food through dieting, we deny the last bit of pleasure we have in our lives. And that strategy never works!

  Jessica Ortner

  Sacrifice, Self, Appreciate

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• Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

  Simon Barnes

  Nature, Giving, Bird

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• It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

  Khalil Gibran

  Needs, Hunger And Thirst, Next

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• The adornment of the body is a human need.

  David LaChapelle

  Needs, Body, Humans

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• This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mean, Government, Law

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• I've always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That's why God gave me two hands. Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.

  Billy Crystal

  Sex, Hands, Two

  Billy Crystal (2013). “Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?”, p.10, Macmillan

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• To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Political, Everyday

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• The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic.

  Joe Conason

  Creativity, Government, Idols

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• Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

  Dalai Lama

  Hero, Responsibility, Needs

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