Human Needs Quotes

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

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Relationship, Family

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

  Banksy

  Art, Sex, Revenge

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• No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Destiny, Suffering, Trying

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

  Aristotle

  Over You, Needs, Purpose

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• Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

  Lily Tomlin

  Complaining, Needs, Language

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• Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity

  Eckhart Tolle

  Essence, Identity, Needs

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

  Peggy Noonan

  Needs, Moral, Aids

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  Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Miracle, Needs

  Wesley L. Duewel (1986). “Touch the World Through Prayer”, p.26, Zondervan

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• 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

  Inspirational, Men, Creative

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• The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

  William James

  Needs, Appreciated, Humans

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• 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

  Pain, Self Esteem, Stress

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic.

  Joe Conason

  Creativity, Government, Idols

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• Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

  Simon Barnes

  Nature, Giving, Bird

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• In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen, Campbell argued that while evolution (or Development) might be observable in the fossil record, it was merely evidence of God's purpose. God, for example, would cause horses and oxen to evolve in time to meet human needs. The brightly colored plumage of birds, Campbell went on, were simply God's decorations of nature for humanity's enjoyment.

  Jonathan Clements

  Horse, Book, Oxen

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• I've always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That's why God gave me two hands. 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

  Sex, Hands, Two

  Billy Crystal (2013). “Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?”, p.10, Macmillan

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• People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

  Paola Antonelli

  Badass, Attitude, Technology

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• 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

  Communication, Technology, Needs

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• If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether its a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

  Peter Zumthor

  Simple, Space, Mountain

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• There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  New York, Cities, Government

  The New York Times, p. 69, April 25, 1971.

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

  Dalai Lama

  Hero, Responsibility, Needs

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• The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

  Carl Sagan

  Bangs, Needs, Creation

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Needs, Hunger And Thirst, Next

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• As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there. Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again.

  George Washington Carver

  Real, Believe, Sleep

  "George Washington Carver: His Life & Faith in His Own Words". Book by William J. Federer, 2003.

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• The adornment of the body is a human need.

  David LaChapelle

  Needs, Body, Humans

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• Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

  John Steinbeck

  Healing, Needs, Literature

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin

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