Quotes of: Human-needs Keyword

Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody g...

Starship Troopers

Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of poetry is also true of DNA: 'all meanings depend on the key of interpretation.' What makes us human, and what makes eac...

Proust Was a Neuroscientist

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does no...

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need ...

Oliver Sacks

Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities night and day, night, the negative pole, must share equal importance wit...

Sleep Has His House

What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

It is we humans that need to forgive others and ourselves for all wrongs, no matter what they may be. Only by forgiveness can we move higher up in our ascension and see in truth, there was never really anything there that needed forgiving

The Twelve Messages of the Spiritual Heart: A Novel of Transformation

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It...

Lauryn Hill

The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it be...

Dan Phillips

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

Richard Adams

I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.

Patricia Cornwell

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

Tyne Daly

But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

Kathryn Stockett

Humans are like sheep scattered everywhere a shepherd is always needed to keep them united

Muhammad Danish Rizwan

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

Jeremy Rifkin

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

Oscar Niemeyer

I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.

Bikram Choudhury

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

Dada Vaswani

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

Noam Chomsky

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

Rachel Miner