The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore…

“Be silent like a rock, deeply rooted and straight like a tree, bend like a reed in the wind, listen to the sounds that…

— Irina Serban

“Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

— William James

If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try…

— Edwin Land

There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

— Andy Rooney

Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.

— Roger Ebert

Privacy is a fundamental human need

— Bruce Schneier

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a…

— Gao Xingjian

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

— John Steinbeck

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

— William Sloane Coffin

Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

— Aleksandar Hemon

God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

A functioning eco-system is a human need.

— Noam Chomsky

Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.

— Marianne Williamson

The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

— Barry Commoner