112 Needs Quotes

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.

Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do.

You know I need a dream Like I need my breath We need to take the life Before we get the death You know I need your love Like I need the light Yes I need the chance Can it be tonight?

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Beggars should be no choosers.

Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'

The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.

'You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.'

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities - his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary.

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.

One social structure will be conducive to cooperation and solidarity another social structure to competition, suspiciousness, avarice; another to child-like receptiveness, another to destructive aggressiveness. All empirical forms or human needs and drives have to be understood as results of the social practice (in the last analysis based on the productive forces, class structure, etc., etc.) but they all have to fulfill the functions which are inherent in man's nature in general, and that is to permit him to relate himself to others and share a common frame of reference, etc. The existential contradiction within man (to which I would now add also the contradiction between limitations which reality imposes on his life, and the virtually limitless imagination which his brain permits him to follow) is what I believe to be one of the motives of psychological and social dynamics. Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him. The question then arises whether there is an optimal solution which can be inferred from man's nature, and which constitutes a potential tendency in man. I believe that such optimal solutions can be inferred from the nature of man, and I have recently found it quite useful to think in terms of what in sociology and economy is now often called >system analysis<. One might start with the idea, in the first place, that human personality - just like society - is a system, that is to say, that each part depends on every other, and no part can be changed unless all or most other parts are also changed. A system is better than chaos. If a society system disintegrates or is destroyed by blows from the outside the society ends in chaos, and a completely new society is built upon its ruins, often using the elements of the destroyed system to build the new. That has happened many times in history. But, what also happens is that the society is not simply destroyed but that the system is changed, and a new system emerges which can be considered to be a transformation of the old one.

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet. -Children of the Mind

Compassion without attachment is possible. Therefore, we need to clarify the distinctions between compassion and attachment. True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude towards others does not change even if they behave negatively. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the needs of the other...

Dr. Cuddy: Oh, I looked into that philosopher you quoted, Jagger, and you're right, 'You can't always get what you want', but as it turns out 'if you try sometimes you get what you need'.

Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. ~ Ch. 2

Bristow hasn't hit it yet. What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar. --reported comment made to a Senate clerk while Senator Joseph Bristow of Kansas was making a speech in which he repeatedly used the phrase, 'What this country needs....' Although Marshall may have spoken the words, they originated with newspaper cartoonist Kin Hubbard who had his 'Abe Martin' character say them. 1

Man must first live before he can live abundantly.

I am one of those people who needs to learn to let people hug me. I also need to need other people because I do.

To have no food for our heads no food for our hearts, no food for our activity, is that nothing? If we have no food for the body, how do we cry out, how all the world hears of it, how all the newspapers talk of it, with a paragraph headed in great capital letters, DEATH FROM STARVATION! But suppose one were to put a paragraph in the Times, Death of Thought from Starvation, or Death of Moral Activity from Starvation, how people would stare, how they would laugh and wonder! One would think we had no heads nor hearts, by the total indifference of the public towards them. Our bodies are the only things of any consequence.

For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.

'Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented with a pianoforte for a wife, and a string quartette for a family.'

It is a real chill out. The fall crisp comes I am aware there is winter to heed. There is no warm house That is fitted with my need.

[Modern capitalism] is masterful at producing services people don't need and in large part probably don't want. It is brilliant at convincing people that they do need and want them. But it has difficulty turning itself to the production of those services which people really do need. Not only that, it often spends an enormous amount of time and effort convincing people that those services are either unrealistic, marginal or counterproductive.

I needed you To love me too. I wait for your move.

Do you know what I really need? I need love love love love love, yeah!

So much for all the prayers you've learned. They are no help to basic needs. And all the worlds they've shown you Just make you even greedier.

The Presence all thy fancies supersedes, All that is done which thou wouldst seek in deeds, The wealth obliterates all seeming needs.

What had been lost was found again. And those who had been hungry without knowing the name of their hunger, were fed.

Doesn't love show it's face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?

I'm hungry and thirsty No, I'm hungry and thirsty No, me. I said it first No, me did they really think that only one of them would be permitted to eat?

I might have been on the outside looking in; at the bottom looking up. Now I'm on the outside, all right, but above, looking down. I don't need anything these people have to offer. What I need, they don't even care about. Some of them probably even have it, and are wasting it, losing it.

There was a time. She could never see him and her fault was to always need him. ~ 'So Much Work'

I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.

For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World.

Tous les hommes seraient donc necessairement egaux, s'ils etaient sans besoins. La misere attachee a notre espece subordonne un homme a un autre homme: ce n'est pas l'inegalite qui est un malheur reel, c'est la dependance.

More than ever, I believe in the permanence of any well-founded institution which recognizes and caters to the basic needs of the people, spiritually as well as materially. And in my opinion, entertainment in its broadest sense has become a necessity rather than a luxury in the life of the American public.

The customer, as everyone knows, is a specific being with individual demands. Because of this, his satisfaction cannot be achieved by any measure through uniform solutions.

What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways. We don't want no pants rabbits. Ch. 2, p.20

...l'estomach affame n'a poinct d'aureilles, il n'oyt goutte.

'I need my fucking water, I don't care!' -Live At Wembley Stadium, 1986

The commodity is first of all, an external object, a thing which through its qualities satisfies human needs of whatever kind. The nature of these needs, whether they arise, for example, from the stomach, or the imagination, makes no difference. Nor does it matter here how the thing satisfies man's need, whether directly as a means of subsistence, i.e. an object of consumption, or indirectly as a means of production

It's just that it's been my experience in having sex with some straight men that the sex is over when he gets off. And I don't accept that. I want to have an orgasm. ...Not right now! This is the Isaac Stern Auditorium!... No. I want to have one. I will put a chalk board over the bed. One... one.

I need a lullaby a kiss goodnight angel sweet love of my life o, I need this

She needed his gentle hands and quiet tears, his lies and his affection. And so she pretended to believe that he really did need her

Singers: We've got nothing always had nothing nothing but holes and millions of them Kokol: Living in holes Polpoch: Dying in holes Cucurucu: Holes in our bellies Rossignol: and holes in our clothes

47. I need 47 energy.

Gimme yo damn sandwich.

Enough! or too much.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Je weniger einer, in Folge objektiver oder subjektiver Bedingungen, notig hat, mit den Menschen in Beruhrung zu kommen, desto besser ist er daran.

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence. If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.

If you are going to organize and ask for commitment, you cannot go to the most desperately poor. They are not likely to take action. If you stand on a man's head and push it into the dirt, he may not even see the heel of your boot. But if his whole face is already above ground, he can see your heel and he can see freedom ahead.

What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Yes, I haven't had enough sex.

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

Fidelity is important as long as it's pure. But the moment it goes against your insides - if you want to be somewhere else, if she wants to dabble - then you need to make a change. (1998)

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

Men take only their needs into consideration-never their abilities.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.

I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.

The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A full 'definition of an object must include the whole of human experience, both as a criterion of truth and a practical indicator of its connection with human wants.

Cold comfort to fill their hungry bellies.