Human Need Quotes
54 quotes by 49 authors
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Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise…
— Thomas Merton
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Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as…
— Benjamin Jowett
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We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on…
— Simone Campbell
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The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather than…
— Michael Parenti
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If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in…
— Peter Zumthor
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People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the…
— Paola Antonelli
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Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
— Simon Barnes
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The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of…
— Joe Conason
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I've always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That's why God gave me two hands. Humans love sex, we need…
— Billy Crystal
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If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need,…
— Tony Robbins
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The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.
— David LaChapelle
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The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret…
— Louis Sullivan
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To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and…
— Josef Albers
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Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture…
— Randy Alcorn
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I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group of wonderfully cared…
— John Sweeney
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The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because…
— Oscar Arias
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a…
— Ai Weiwei
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Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.
— James Paul Gee
Who Wrote These Human Need Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 54 Human Need Quotes, led by these top contributors: