Basic Needs Quotes

“Good food, fresh water, an occasional sweet and someone to care for. That's what everyone should have.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study

“THREE BASIC TRUTHS

Three things have a limited threshold:
Time, pain, and death.
While truth, love, and knowledge –
Are boundless.

Three things are needed
For humanity to co-exist:
Truth, peace and basic needs.
Everything else -
Is irrelevant.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“When we turn the body into human capital, the political consequences of the body disappear. Hands that are raised, legs that move, fingers that point, floors that are mopped, mouths that are fed. Our economy is built on bodies.

If the body was taken seriously as a starting point for the economy, it would have far-reaching consequences. A society organized around the shared needs of human bodies would be a very different society from the one we know now.

Hunger, cold, sickness, lack of healthcare, and lack of food would be central economic concerns. Not like today: unfortunate by-products of the one and only system.

Our economic theories refuse to accept the reality of the body and flee as far from it as they can. That people are born small and die fragile, and that skin cut with a sharp object will bleed no matter who you are, no matter where you come from, no matter what you earn, and no matter where you live. What we have in common starts with the body. We shiver when we are cold, sweat when we run, cry out when we come, and cry out when we give birth. It's through the body that we can reach other people. So, economic man eradicates it. Pretends it doesn't exist. We observe it from the outside as if we were foreign capital.

And we are alone.”
― Katrine Marçal, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics

“Some people make it extremely difficult to continue believing that complaining is not one of the basic human needs.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is our desire, not need, to be loved (back).”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“As we grow up our sense of reality begins to change. How we used to perceive things as a child, fades away like a distant dream. And you are introduced to a bizarre idea of the never ending race for survival.

They tell you "survival is key", "survival of the fittest", "you have to survive", " keep surviving", so on and so forth.

But let me ask you a basic question.

Survival from what? My dear, there is no apocalypses you have to overcome its just life and life is beautiful no matter what set colors you hold in your hands.

So, live with all your heart, and dont just survive.”
― Bushra Zainab

“The child of a poor farmer or a construction worker has as much right to a healthy and happy life, as the child of a billionaire - and till we make it happen, not a single day can go without our involvement to lift our society with our own two hands. This very involvement is the very lifeblood of a functional democracy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Advancement that serves only the privileged is no advancement.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“A home is a source of safety and comfort.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“The Sharzelos Model third rule of reversal emphasizes the importance of considering the age and mental language of underachievers when planning their basic needs.”
― Asuni LadyZeal

“Children aged 0-7 need play and associations, 7-14 require feel-good activities, and 14-21 seek self-respect and independence for holistic development.”
― Asuni LadyZeal

“Utilizing data gathered in the early stages of underachievement reversal to uncover the basic needs and mental language of the underachiever is usually instrumental in tailoring interventions that address the unique needs and preferences of the student for a more effective reversal process.”
― Asuni LadyZeal

“Life and Abundance (The Sonnet)

A person to take refuge in,
a purpose to be driven by,
that's all you need
to lead a good life.

A roof to take shelter under,
couple meals to feed our hunger,
that's all you need
to lead a good life.

Brain at the base of the mind,
Heart at the base of existence,
Character at the base of the shoulder,
that's all you need to lead a good life.

Materialism normalized as abundance
chains freedom, and renders life a cripple.
True abundance instills content not clutter,
Actual needs of life are rather little.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Imagine the everyday occurrence where you meet one basic need, only to find that the next need follows immediately. Think of a waterfall. I watched in wonder as I witnessed one waterfall after another from a train window in beautiful Norway. There was no end to those tiny water droplets. They just kept falling. In fact, everyone’s basic needs seem like a waterfall that just keeps cascading, spilling one need after another, especially when you live with other people and have their needs to consider along with your own.”
― Janis Clark Johnston, Midlife Maze: A Map to Recovery and Rediscovery after Loss

“To understand parent-child conflict, adults need to revisit their own childhood memories...when you figure out something about your own childhood, it serves a double purpose: when you can acknowledge your unmet needs, you can appreciate that your child may have similar unmet needs.”
― Janis Clark Johnston, It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent: Stories of Evolving Child and Parent Development

“When people break through the abstractions and labels they often find themselves on the same side with their opposites, especially once the discussion gets down to the reality of where people live, work, play, and raise their families. It is precisely because people want the same basic things in life, with obvious variations, that the ruling powers have driven their divide-and-rule strategies throughout history.”
― Ralph Nader, Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think

“Welfare doesn't mean free money, welfare means food, housing, healthcare and education - any government that fails to provide the essentials to its citizens forfeits its right to office. Focus on universal basic essentials, not universal basic income.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Focus on universal basic essentials, not universal basic income.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Welfare doesn't mean free money, welfare means food, housing, healthcare and education - any government that fails to provide the essentials to its citizens forfeits its right to office.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Selling basic biological necessities is unfair because it asks people to trade their finite lives for the very things their lives depend on. And human need is not the same as want. If survival is a commodity, it means society has decided need and want are the same thing.”
― Kristian Ventura, The Price of Being Human

“Being charged for basic needs that society already possesses and refuses to give remains the world’s most obvious problem.”
― Kristian Ventura, The Price of Being Human

“If (1) no one consents to being born, and (2) basic needs are mandatory, and (3) access to those needs is owned by others and contingent upon labor and money, then we are renting back our own right to remain alive.”
― Kristian Ventura, The Price of Being Human

“When existence is universal, but the ability to sustain it is not, we are met with a critical failure.”
― Kristian Ventura, The Price of Being Human

“Shelter is strangely absent from the broader conversation about universal human rights. Society moved it from a moral category into an economic incentive. While society has accepted it is wrong to leave anyone to die of thirst, it has not extended that same instinct to permanent housing. To governments, investors, and landlords, shelter feels like something you must merit because they see profit. Their thinking is, however, flawed because food and water both exist to satisfy the same human biology. They’re changing the moral rule based on the size of the object instead of the nature of the need. A need does not become less essential simply because it is harder to guarantee.”
― Kristian Ventura, The Price of Being Human

“One safe room with a bathroom, an area to cook, and a lockable door is all a person needs in order to live safely.”
― Kristian Ventura, The Price of Being Human

“Civilization is about reducing the parts of survival that are no longer necessary. What kind of protection leaves people without a place to sleep?”
― Kristian Ventura, The Price of Being Human

“Many critics of free shelter claim that every creature has always had to compete, gather resources, and secure its own food and shelter. But illness is natural, and we do not deny antibiotics. Drowning is natural, but we do not refuse rescue. The rule of the jungle does not apply to civilization.”
― Kristian Ventura, The Price of Being Human

“Shelter is not a privilege. It must be protected because it is the barrier between a human being and danger. Without it, no other freedom can be exercised. You cannot safely work, rest, protect yourself, or build a life without a home.”
― Kristian Ventura, The Price of Being Human

“Basic shelter is not a matter of taste or what someone has earned. Human beings need to sleep safely, use a bathroom, prepare food, store belongings, and protect themselves from weather. That is the benchmark. One needs the privacy to rest, think, and exist without being forced to share their life with strangers. A home is also the precondition for stable connection. Without a place to return to, relationships become harder to build. It allows a person to be findable, to welcome others, and to keep the dignity of not being forced to live every moment in public. There is a minimum space required to live.”
― Kristian Ventura, The Price of Being Human