Top 1200 Basic Human Needs Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria."

Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?

Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of being able to at least meet their basic needs.

On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'

We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.

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.

My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

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

We have to see that the human person needs the infinite. If God's not there, if the infinite isn't available, the human person creates its own paradises, giving the appearance of 'infinitude' that can only be a lie.

Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.

When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation, and pastiche no longer needs any special name. Now this is simlpy the basic logic of cultural production.

My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights.

The fact is that proprietary databases don't work for such basic and broadly needed information as the sequence of the human genome.

The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.

The government should not do everything for everybody all the time, but it should provide basic services to everyone who needs them. Education ought not be contingent on income or where you live. Neither should health.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

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.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.

Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.

We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

It's definitely a challenge, but it's even more than that. Beyond the basic need to understand what you're saying, a computer needs to understand what you're trying to do. So humans talking to computers present variable challenges.

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

You always know. You have basic needs, and when they aren't met, your body sends signals. Hunger, loneliness, exhaustion, thirst, and fear are all signals that something is missing, and you need to act on it now.

It is up to us to push for a transformation in political culture in which the basic human dignity of migrants is unequivocally respected.

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

No one should be denied the opportunity to choose his or her spouse. It is a basic human right and deeply personal decision.

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the needs and wants of the human population, which continues to escalate.

We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people are satisfied, and a world that will allow us to think of ourselves as civilized. This is entirely doable.

Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

Highway' teaches one basic lesson, One God creating so many human beings, but all different in complexities, layers and charactersiticis.

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank.

Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials.

In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.

What feminism sought to do, when you get right down to it feminism was brought to us by a bunch of angry women whose major grievance and beef was with human nature and God. And they sought to reverse, undo, change, whatever, basic human nature, things that we're born with.

The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.