Human Needs Quotes - Page 5

• [Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Needs, Capacity

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• We each have two human needs: To learn and grow & to be respected, accepted and loved the way you are. Even though feedback facilitates learning and growth, it conflicts with our need to feel respected. This is a key reason we resist feedback.

  Sheila Heen

  Two, Keys, Growth

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• It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

  Albert Camus

  Unity, World, Principles

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• The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

  Bill Gates

  Needs, World, Hierarchy

  "Bill Gates says putting worldwide internet access before malaria research is 'a joke'" by Jacob Kastrenakes, www.theverge.com. November 1, 2013.

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• It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

  Noam Chomsky

  Diversity, Liberty, Needs

  Noam Chomsky (2003). “For Reasons Of State”, p.376, Penguin Books India

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• Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.

  Moby

  Inspire, Needs, Tortillas

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com.

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• The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

  Leo Burnett

  Dream, Agency, Needs

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• God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Needs, Deeds, Gaps

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.57, tredition

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• Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Snakes, Elephants, Grace

  Carol Emshwiller (2004). “Carmen Dog”, p.158, Small Beer Press

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• This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mother’s arms; in those who are deprived of the experience, the need freezes and, distorted, it can rent a life. All addiction has as its foundation skewed yearning for the same transcendence. For me, the spell of the material was broken by my brother’s death; after his suicide, all I wanted was the renewal of my connection to the intangible.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Mother, Suicide, Brother

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• It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.

  Donna Dubinsky

  Needs, Fundamentals, Strikes

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• So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth. Each day shall bring its problems new. And men shall dream of mightier deeds than ever have been done before. There always shall be human needs for men to work and struggle for.

  Edgar Guest

  Dream, Struggle, Men

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• Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Simplicity, Needs, Complicated

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

  Satish Kumar

  Technology, Cake, People

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• Kids suffering, with no opportunities for lack of having their basic human needs [met], like food, health, and education, but at the same time, [it] motivates me to keep fighting for them, for the ones less fortunate.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Kids, Fighting, Opportunity

  "Patricia Velasquez – Supermodel, Actor and Author". Interview with Monica Melsness, nicheandnook.com. October 3, 2015.

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• However, within the limits of the human, it is important to recognise our common humanity. I think that a perspective based on common human needs has the most chance of being accepted and this does not depend on any particular metaphysical outlook.

  Alison Assiter

  Thinking, Common Humanity, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Needs, Materials, Humans

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis. This is result of capitalism, a system based on prioritizing profits not human need where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a capitalist elite.

  Kshama Sawant

  War, Technology, Hands

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs are satisfied, then we will have a stable economy, reproducing every year the same things. We will stop straining ourselves worrying about development or growth. How naïve they were! One more reason to be reluctant about predicting the future. No doubt they were wiser than me, but even they made such a mistake!

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mistake, Years, Worry

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• A functioning eco-system is a human need.

  Noam Chomsky

  Needs, Eco, Humans

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What the Indians are saying is that they are recognizing the right of wilderness to be wilderness. Wilderness is not an extension of human need or of human justification. It is itself and it is inviolate, itself. This does not mean that, therefore, we become separated from it, because we don't. We stay connected if, once in our lives, we learn exactly what that connection is between our heart, our womb, our mind, and wilderness. And when each of us has her wilderness within her, we can be together in a balanced kind of way. The forever, we have that within us.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Nature, Heart, Mean

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• Militarism is the most energy-intensive, entropic activity of humans, since it converts stored energy and materials directly into waste and destruction without any useful intervening fulfillment of basic human needs. Ironically, the net effect of military, as opposed to civilian, expenditures is to increase unemployment and inflation.

  Hazel Henderson

  Military, Energy, Needs

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• Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.

  Roger Ebert

  Needs, Fundamentals, Married

  "All the lonely people" by Roger Ebert, November 10, 2010.

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• While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.

  Anais Nin

  Mother, Father, People

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• Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and evil, since we have moralistic feelings about time. Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good at a time when they have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sleep, Night, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.40, Vintage

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