Basic Needs Quotes - Page 4

• Studies say great harm can be done to a person if the connection between mother and child isn´t there from the start. Love is a basic need/instinct, and people can get quite desperate and become destructive if they don´t have it.

  Anne Sewitsky

  Mother, Children, Love Is

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Believe, Ambition, Soul

  Edward Teller (1987). “Better a shield than a sword: perspectives on defense and technology”, Free Pr

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• Capitalism is very far from a perfect system, but so far we have yet to find anything that clearly does a better job of meeting human needs than a regulated capitalist economy coupled with a welfare and health care system that meets the basic needs of those who do not thrive in the capitalist economy. If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist.

  Peter Singer

  Jobs, Capitalist Economy, Perfect

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• The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary. ... We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Home, Welfare Programs

  "To Men of the Priesthood". General Conference, www.lds.org. October 2002.

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