Basic Human Need Quotes

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

Khalil Gibran

#2. Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group of wonderfully cared for, confident individuals will generate great ideas.

John Sweeney

#3. When a basic human need becomes a taboo, it is only a matter of time before it turns into a hideous industry.

Stephan Attia

#4. Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they're always strangely drawn back ... because there's nothing that can compare to seeing the raw reality of the basic human need for survival. It disgusts and inspires

Dan Eldon

#5. Touch is so underrated. The basic human need for contact.

Kim Holden

#6. 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

#7. The word "rights", is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights.

Stefan Molyneux

#8. Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.

Kofi Annan

#9. Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as a human being, potentialities which the mystique of feminine fulfillment ignores.

Betty Friedan

#10. There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.

John Williams

#11. We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection.

Dalai Lama

#12. 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

#13. There are things about guys who are in the army. They're very particular, they have to be.

Daniel Craig

#14. Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Jeffrey Wright

#15. If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

Emma Thompson

#16. One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.

Harold S. Kushner

#17. It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights.

Tina Brown

#18. There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.

Naveen Jain

#19. There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.

Patrick O'Brian

#20. Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

Karl Marx

#21. The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

Ralph G. Nichols

#22. Twolegs are mousebrain

Erin Hunter

#23. It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

Sara Sheridan

#24. In keeping with something called self-determination theory, which holds that human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others.

Sebastian Junger

#25. it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. The reason is simple: without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.

Matthew Desmond