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

Eckhart Tolle

Essence, Identity, Needs

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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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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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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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Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise and tension of modern life, at least for a little while, in order to relax their minds and wills and seek a blessed healing sense of inner unity, reconciliation, integration?

Thomas Merton

Blessed, Healing, Reflection

Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.44, Macmillan

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To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.

Olivia Newton-John

Love, Flower, Blessing

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Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.

Benjamin Jowett

Real, Grace, Energy

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We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on them, so for us, health care reform is a faith-based response to human need.

Simone Campbell

People, Suffering, Reform

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Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them - and so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem, because we live in the same ecosphere.

Karl-Henrik Robert

Inspiring, Dad, Rain

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The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather than human need is the determining condition of private investment.

Michael Parenti

Law, People, Needs

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Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.

Frances Moore Lappé

Choices, Balance, Society

"Frances Moore Lappe: Diet for a Small Planet". Plowboy Interview with Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

Alan Rickman

Destiny, Government, People

"Interview: Alan Rickman on “Nobel Son”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 4.

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India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.

Thrity Umrigar

Spiritual, Real, Ambition

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Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement and the philosophy can use to meet their goals and design a world in which human needs are met while enhancing the health of this miraculous planet that supports us.

Toby Hemenway

Philosophy, Goal, Design

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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

Abraham Maslow

Motivation, Reality, Self

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Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies as high-speed rail instead of maximizing fossil fuel use, and solar energy, is not "relentless resource extraction."

Noam Chomsky

Technology, Energy, Needs

Source: www.counterpunch.org

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Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

Mary Robinson

Children, Western Values, Race

Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

Emma Goldman

Men, Mind, Needs

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

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