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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't…

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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop…
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases…
Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when…
Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should…
What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material…
Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the…
What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who…
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things…
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It…
Madness is no madness when shared.
Happiness needs one-upmanship.
In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is…

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To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is… — Olivia Newton-John
No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness… — Dalai Lama
Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human… — Karl-Henrik Robert
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now… — Billy Joel
This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or… — Abraham Maslow
To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes. — Jimmy Carter
The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed. — Mahatma Gandhi
Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs. — Dalai Lama
Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement… — Toby Hemenway
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. — Banksy
We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy. — Jay Inslee

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