Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of…

“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the impact on…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say…

— Robert A. Heinlein

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation…

— Abraham Maslow

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

— Abraham Maslow

The change in economic values created by the new markets for global public goods will reorient our global economy and under the right conditions…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

He who has got more than that is required to fulfill his basic need spends his resources, more often than not, on the people…

— Anuj

Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of…

— Caroline Lucas

“Life and Abundance (The Sonnet) A person to take refuge in, a purpose to be driven by, that's all you need to lead a…

— Abhijit Naskar

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…

— Lester R. Brown

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Technology doesn’t change people’s basic needs or their natures.”

— Priya Ardis

One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into…

— Dean Spade

I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And…

— Manmohan Singh

Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of…

— Peter Singer

Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or…

— Sheila Kamerman