Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest…

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

— John Ziman

Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other…

— Muhammad Yunus

As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to…

— George Washington Carver

Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement and the…

— Toby Hemenway

Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement…

— Janet Malcolm

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

So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth.…

— Edgar Guest

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human…

— Noam Chomsky

Every day I have spent in Uganda has been beautifully overwhelming; everywhere I have looked, raw, filthy, human need and brokenness have been on…

— Katie Davis

[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

— Bertrand Russell

“The whole world will be intelligent, educated, and co-operating; things will move faster and faster towards the subjugation of Nature. In the end, wisely…

— H.G. Wells

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the…

— Billy Joel

I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so…

— George Carlin

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

— Jef Raskin

Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if…

— Karl-Henrik Robert