Needs - Quotes
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one.
Language is not a protocol legislated by an authority but rather a wiki that pools the contributions of millions of writers and speakers, who ceaselessly bend the language to their needs and who inexorably age, die, and get replaced by their children, who adapt the language in their turn.
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
Once basic human needs for food/shelter/health care/education/social justice are fairly well met, people lose their need for religion.
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.
Perhaps the human soul needs excursions, and must not be denied them. But the point of an excursion is that you come home again.
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn`t yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself.
Democracy works only if we citizens are capable of thinking beyond our narrow self-interest. But to do so, we need a shared view of the world we cohabit. We need to come into contact with other peoples' lives and needs and desires. The filter bubble pushes us in the opposite direction - it creates the impression that our narrow self-interest is all that exists. And while this is great for getting people to shop online, it’s not great for getting people to make better decisions together.
When people don't have to worry about having their basic needs met, they care a lot more about having products and leaders that represent who they are.
New Years Eve... Someone just needs to change the name to "Same Old Years Eve". Because that "new", implying all that hope and promise, it`s not fooling anyone.