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Quotes About Needs

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
~ Bella Abzug
At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.
~ Tony Benn
There is two things that tickle the fancy of our citizens, one is let him act on a committee, and the other is promise him to let him walk in a parade. What America needs is to get more mileage out of our parades.
~ Will Rogers
"Fair and foul are near of kin,And fair needs foul," I cried."My friends are gone, but that's a truthNor grave nor bed denied."
~ William Butler Yeats
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
~ William Glasser
Our civilization will, of course, be "playing God" in an ultimate sense of the phrase: evolving a greater intelligence than currently exists on earth. It behooves us to be a considerate creator, wise to the world and its fragile nature, sensitive to the needs for stable footings that will prevent backsliding -- and keep that house of cards we call civilization from collapsing.
~ William H. Calvin
Marketing people know the corporate position so well that they automatically develop pricing strategies compatible with it rather than with market needs.
~ William H. Davidow
The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans…. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.
~ William J. Brennan (Jr.)
God created you, and He knows exactly what you need to live your life to the fullest. As your Creator, He can restore you at the end of a draining day—so you can play beautiful music tomorrow!
~ David C. Cook
if we have the means to build them, why shouldn't they? Are there families who don't "deserve" houses?)
~ David Graeber
the factors that people actually object to about such 'unequal' social arrangements: for instance, that some manage to turn their wealth into power over others; or that other people end up being told their needs are not important, and their lives have no intrinsic worth.
~ David Graeber
from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs'.
~ David Graeber
Major Message Women can be given the gift of prophecy. Certainly, one of the most valuable uses of this gift, in addition to fulfilling callings in the Church, would be within the family, knowing by the power of the Spirit what the needs of family members are and will be. We understand that woman's intuition is a form of this gift of the Spirit.
~ David J. Ridges
Wendell Berry: There appears to be a law that when creatures have reached the level of consciousness, as men have, they must become conscious of the creation; they must learn how they fit into it and what its needs are and what it requires of them, or else pay a terrible penalty; the spirit of creation will go out of them, and they will become destructive; the very earth will depart from them and go where they cannot follow.
~ David Landis Barnhill
history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.
~ David Malouf
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
~ David Mamet
There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.
~ Ravi Zacharias
It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.
~ Brian D. McLaren
Ministry takes place when divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of God.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.
~ Steve Lawson
Worry is the warning light that shows I've stopped looking to God to meet my needs.
~ Rick Warren