Quotes About Necessities

Indeed, the modern arguments about the necessities and virtues of government control over the individual are but malign echoes of utopian prescriptions through the ages, which attempted to define subjugation as the most transcendent state of man.

They say that love is more important than money, have you ever tried paying your bills with a hug?

the particular needs of ours that have been fulfilled

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

paradox: The things you don't need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.

I was starting to think that except for the deli counters and five or ten thousand other total essentials, supermarkets were pretty much a waste of time.

how fragile and fleeting life is in the relentless flow of minor necessities that make up day-to-day existence.

The times change, but the nature of men does not. Such men ... will not find our new age more favorable, and they will tell us that their evils are only necessities of the times. But they will linger in the house of the Devil, savor his vintage, and acquire a taste for it.

Alguém dissera um dia que se podia viver sem tudo, menos água e comida, mas que viver sem livros e sem música não seria o mesmo que viver.

Since the start of collectivization, the necessities of life had almost completely disappeared from the shelves of the village store.

Gone are the days when basic needs were food, shelter and clothing. Money replaced everything.

Principles are easy to have when you have a place to live and regular meals.

you are rich in the things I do not need and poor in things I count important.

America is going to hell if we don't use her vast resources to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life. —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

A noble society is one where obeying and exercising authority are ethical behaviors, and not mere practical necessities.

The more things you own, the more things you need to keep you comfortable.

How will he get by in the desert without bowls and plates, without coal stoves, without carpets to lie down on with the little ones? Without his toilet, without the view from the window onto the square and the fountains with their crystal-clear water.

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities… are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.

The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.

Après avoir eu peur des fantômes innombrables créés, non par le monde, mais par les individus, je n'étais plus, comme auparavant, en proie à l'anxiété où me plongeait toutes choses. Prêt à faire face aux nécessités de l'heure, j'agissais avec une certaine audace.

To follow Jesus today is to follow a madman according to the ideals of present day civilization. We have the idea that our civilization is God-ordained, whereas it has been built up by ourselves. We have made a thousand and one necessities until our system of civilized life is as cast iron, and then we apologize to the Lord for not following Him.

I remember taking my entire wardrobe with me on that trip. It consisted of one shirt on a wire hanger, and one pair of underpants in a carrier bag.