Quotes About Necessities

I usually carry my wallet, phone, Chapstick, and a snack at all times.

I wasn't aware so many kids were lacking basic things like a hot meal at night and somewhere warm and safe to live.

Money is there to put food on the table and make sure your family is cared for. Anything beyond that can be argued as extraneous.

I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

My kids certainly aren't going to have the money. They don't need it.

You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

To make the society [which of course consists of non-workers] happy and people easier under the meanest circumstances, it is requisite that great numbers of them should be ignorant as well as poor; knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our desires, and the fewer things a man wishes for, the more easily his necessities may be supplied. [3] What Mandeville

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

so few in reality are the true necessities of man

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Theres a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.

What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.

Food, clothes and shelter have no politics.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.