Desire Quote by Eric Hoffer

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we…

— Eric Hoffer

“Being human means yearning for more than subsistence. As much as food or shelter, we require hope.”

— Jessica Bruder

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

— Sigmund Freud

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

— William James

To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed,…

— Dorothy Day

Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most…

— Erich Fromm

Our Heavenly Father hears the prayers of His children across the earth pleading for food to eat, for clothes to cover their bodies, and…

— Henry B. Eyring

“In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion…

— Pope Benedict XVI

As we need food too sustAin our physical lives,we also need nourishing food for our spiritual lives.

— Marianette Carbito

If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food…

— J. C. Kumarappa

Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally…

— Alexander Schmemann

Being Unwanted, Unloved, Uncared for, forgotten by everybody, is much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat

— Mother Teresa