To love and be loved is the most powerful of human needs…

“Blood is power, and the heart consumed of one much loved is the most powerful thing of all. After all, what is love if…

— H.M. Ward

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

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

“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

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

— Marianne Williamson

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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