Necessities Quotes

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

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

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

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

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

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

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.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.