Quotes About Necessities

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.

And the things we girls need because no one wants to run out of those supplies in the middle of a blizzard.

Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives. TITUS 3:14

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent. Enlarge your personality without including anything from the outside – asking nothing from others and imposing nothing on others, but being others when you need them. Reduce your necessities to a minimum, so as not to depend on anyone for anything. It's true that such a life is impossible in the absolute. But it's not impossible relatively.

don't insult myself by giving to dreams a value they do not have, apart from that of being my personal theatre, just as I do not call wine (from which I still do not abstain) 'food' or 'one of life's necessities'.

I dream because I dream, but I don't insult myself by giving to dreams a value they do not have, apart from that of being my personal theatre, just as I do not call wine (from which I still do not abstain) 'food' or 'one of life's necessities'.

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

In terms of pots and pans, I just use the basics - I'm not a snob like that.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

I am stealing more and more money. I keep it in my top drawer beneath my underwear, along with my diaphragm and lipstick and switchblade—these are things a woman needs

We were not rich, of course—far from it; but we had enough to eat and use and save—always.

When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Part of the budget should be used to purchase the items that you really need, such as a new coat or boots. Part of the budget should then be set aside to buy things you fall in love with and can't live without.