Quotes About Necessities

all mass identities are based on fictional stories, not on scientific facts or even on economic necessities.

luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

I may not own any carpets, but you've got to get your priorities right when it comes to life's luxuries. In my case it was music, microwave and movies—probably in that order.

Le véritable communisme - l'égalité économique entre les hommes et entre les communautés - exige que chaque communauté organise la planification la meilleure et la plus efficace, en se fondant sur ses nécessités et possibilités locales (...) le communisme est nécessairement libertaire. Anarchiste.

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.

My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

Nobody in Maine should be deciding between whether they go to a doctor, whether they buy their medicine or whether they're putting food on the table.

I have the emergency kit in my purse that has double-sided tape and Tylenol, and a small energy bar. I'm the one that has an extra lip gloss just in case.

I hear people saying we need this and we need that as a society, but is it really fair for the government - i.e. the taxpayers - to provide people with cell phones? I don't think so.

Some folks think they are luxuries,' I said, 'but at Ingleside we think they are necessities.

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniencies for which it has occasion.

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Toda persona es rica o pobre según el grado en que pueda disfrutar de las cosas necesarias, convenientes y agradables de la vida.

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

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

the old "4-4-40" rough standard for human survival: four minutes without air, four days without water, forty days without food.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

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.

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.