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Quotes About Basic necessities

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
~ Pope John Paul II
I wasn't aware so many kids were lacking basic things like a hot meal at night and somewhere warm and safe to live.
~ John Bishop
Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you.
~ DJ Khaled
You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.
~ Stevie Smith
I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
~ Naveen Jain
A bird, music and food -desert island items
~ Michael Johnson
Humans are always looking for explanations. I'm not interested in them. Is that food over there? Is there water over the hill? Where is there shade from the midday sun and a warm rock to rest on at night? These are the important questions.
~ David G. Hartwell
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
~ John Ruskin
lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.
~ Paul Farmer
A starving man learns to respect the hand that feeds him, the one who cares for his most primal needs. So when I begin training a woman, my plan is intentional. I strip her of the most basic necessities. Food, clothing, shelter. Though her needs are contrived by me, the cumulative effects of my training will not be in vain.
~ Jane Henry
Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it.
~ Peter Singer
Our basest beggarsAre in the poorest thing superfluous:Allow not nature more than nature needs,Man's life is cheap as beast's.
~ William Shakespeare
Neglect is when a parent does not feed a child or provide the basic necessities such as clothing or shelter, or medical attention if needed. Leaving a child alone when the child is not yet ready to care for him/herself is neglectful since it leaves a child in a potentially dangerous situation.
~ Eliana Gil
Society must be organized in such a way that man's social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it. If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.
~ Erich Fromm
If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.
~ Shirley MacLaine
The economy is a game. This game should be about nonessential things (motorcycles, computers, televisions). A person feeding their family, staying alive, having shelter . . . that should not be subject to an economy.
~ Jessica Bruder
When I read in newspapers that farmers are dying because of water shortage, I felt deeply pained that we have best of everything, yet we complain so much, whereas there are people who do not even have access to basic necessities of life.
~ Roop Durgapal
kibble, coffee and a few other staples, and headed
~ Linda Lael Miller
Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.
~ Jo Bonner
Vengeance can feel fine, but it's a luxury. It doesn't fill your belly, or keep the rain off.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Save the Children is also working to improve accommodation for refugee families living outside settlements. I met a family which had been living in a substandard building without windows, doors or a toilet.
~ Gemma Chan
There he was, sipping tea from a dainty bulb, seated on a fresh-grown mat woven in the traditional style, with his hypnotic Warlock formulation-rod to one side, and his slate in reading mode on the other, tuned to the proper subchannels and ready with the proper routines, ready to undertake a thorough neural investigation, cleaning, and reconstitution. A tea-bulb, a mat, a rod, a brain interface. All the simple and basic necessities of life. He was beginning to feel like a civilized man again.
~ John C. Wright