Quotes About Human Needs

#1. I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

John Warnock

#2. Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.

Tom Rath

#3. Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#4. We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

Zygmunt Bauman

#5. Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions, and gifts, our human needs and eternal aspirations. It is the way of life we were created for.

Eugene H. Peterson

#6. Human needs rules and penalties.
Lessons require heroes and villains.
Ignore them, then welcome to the jungle.

Toba Beta

#7. I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power to being a peaceful nation, using our enormous wealth for human needs, here and abroad.

Howard Zinn

#8. 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.

Billy Joel

#9. A successful story always offers its audience more than a simple resolution of events. A story offers a dramatic affirmation of human needs that are acted out to resolution and fulfillment. Even when that resolution and fulfillment are dark, the journey can still be vivid, potent and illuminating.

Bill Johnson

#10. Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception,

John Maeda

#11. While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity. And

Leo Tolstoy

#12. Because we need each other. We complete each other. Duty works both ways. Love needs a beloved. Loyalty needs two to be loyalty. Fidelity is nothing without someone to be faithful to. Every dog needs a human, and every human needs a dog.

Angelo Dirks

#13. The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

Arthur Middleton

#14. Global laissez-faire is not a conspiracy of corporate America. It is a tragedy - one of several that have occurred in the twentieth century - in which an hubristic ideology runs aground on enduring human needs that it has failed to comprehend.

John Gray

#15. Human hopes and human creeds; have their root in human needs.

Eugene Fitch Ware

#16. 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

#17. SDT, by contrast, begins with a notion of universal human needs. It argues that we have three innate psychological needs - competence, autonomy, and relatedness.

Daniel H. Pink

#18. Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

David Guterson

#19. Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.

Muhammad Yunus

#20. One of our fundamental human needs is finding our partner that we hope we will stay with for the rest of our lives. You often find the same search in other genres. The mystery novel has a romance subplot. Literary novels often focus on that relationship but do not often end well.

Lauren Willig

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

Margaret Mead

#22. Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

Roger Scruton

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

Eckhart Tolle

#24. The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.

Geoff Mulgan

#25. Churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

Stephen R. Covey

#26. In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#27. It is not from their intrinsic nature that goods gain the character of economic goods, but through their relation to men and through their ability to lead, directly or indirectly, to the satisfaction of human needs.

Sandye Gloria-Palermo

#28. But before we could continue the war, it was necessary to analyze it to determine what its purpose was. We did this, and we found that it had no purpose, except, perhaps, in terms of human needs. Even this was questionable.

Philip K. Dick

#29. 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

#30. The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity ...

Manfred Max-Neef

#31. 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

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

Jef Raskin

#33. Religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.

Georgia Harkness

#34. Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems at every level of economic development arise from the harvesting, transport, processing, and conversion of energy

John Holdren

#35. Institutions that channel social knowledge from below and address human needs at a personal level are more likely to adapt to problems and circumstances and to find solutions. That

Yuval Levin

#36. History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

Irving Langmuir

#37. [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

#38. Pragmatism is a matter of human needs; and one of the first of human needs is to be something more than a pragmatist.

G.K. Chesterton

#39. If your eyes can not cry, then your gut will.
The head and heart may be in denial of your human needs, but the gut will always carry the wisdom of your needs met and unmet, and thusly respond.

Martha Char Love

#40. I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

Naveen Jain

#41. Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.

Alan Cooper

#42. Art is an intersection of many human needs.

Carl Andre

#43. In other words, ideas can become powerful forces, but only to the extent to which they are answers to specific human needs prominent in a given social character.

Erich Fromm

#44. 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

#45. Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.

Isaac Asimov

#46. 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

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

Jimmy Carter

#48. 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

#49. We must start ... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.

Jay Inslee

#50. 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

#51. 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

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

Banksy

#53. 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

#54. He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a President moves free of human entanglement, human needs, human illusions; not even a President can be independent of those around him.

Tom Wicker

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

Dalai Lama

#56. The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#57. To love and be loved is the most powerful of human needs
Clare Morgan

Mary Jo Putney

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

Bill Gates

#59. Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

Elliot Richardson

#60. 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

#61. Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

John Ziman

#62. Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity.

Leo Tolstoy

#63. Ministry takes place when divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#64. Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.

Walter F. Mondale

#65. 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

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

Peggy Noonan

#67. Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#68. 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

#69. Dewey believed that education has a practical function and should not be seen as a series of pointless hurdles to jump over before 'real life' begins. Education isn't a preamble to life; it's part of life, and it exists to solve practical human problems and meet human needs.

Gregory Bassham

#70. In today's world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#71. I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.

Michael Haneke

#72. Apart from the scientific interest attached to my various journeyings, it has been made clear to me that human needs and aspirations differ little the world over and that no great difficulties arise in one race dealing with another when matters of scientific importance are involved.

Howard Florey

#73. 'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.

Stephen Covey

#74. The doubt itself will not disappear as long as man does not overcome his isolation and as long as his place in the world has not become a meaningful one in terms of his human needs.

Erich Fromm

#75. A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health.

Roger Scruton

#76. No matter how we or others may evaluate what we do, ministry that's based on biblical principles will meet human needs and glorify God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#77. Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance

Jackson Pollock

#78. Postmodernism: The cultural condition marked by the absolute gratification of human desires and the absolute neglect of human needs.

Peter K. Fallon

#79. It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself.

Jim Dodge

#80. Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.

James Paul Gee

#81. When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. They are completely unable to meet and address the needs of human beings.

Satish Kumar

#82. There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.

Thucydides

#83. I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

John McCain

#84. You know, there's something when you just know you fit together. And I fit with you. I don't care what you are, human or anything else. It's like a need, Maddy. So please." He stopped and looked at her desperately. Nakedly. "Give me a chance, Maddy.

Scott Speer

#85. The human has no genetic adaptation to modern industrialized products and needs to be careful with prolonged exposure to these for good health.

Steven Magee

#86. Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#87. Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he's committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.

Conor Oberst

#88. You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there? Probably the only thing that separates us from other creatures is that we aren't limited by our basic needs, like food and water; we have this sense of the whole.

George N. Atiyeh

#89. Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.

John Scalzi

#90. I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.

George W. Bush

#91. I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.

Anne Rice

#92. If we get total certainty, we get ... bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

Tony Robbins

#93. I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called attention to the need for recognizing the dignity of the human being as a child of God.

Robert H. Schuller

#94. Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical and spiritual needs ... We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us.

Mike Hulme

#95. That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#96. China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights.

Hu Jintao

#97. You don't need to be a completely complete human right now ... That's what makes you human.

Tavi Gevinson

#98. Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.

Robert Winston

#99. Every palace needs a foundation, Askeladden. Make sure that yours isn't of human bones.-Hans Peter

Jessica Day George

#100. Artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

Madeleine L'Engle