Aristotle Quotes

The seven basic, essential goods and services, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Transportation, Protection, Tools, and (special) Education.

Well, I mean, bread, I mean, I've got to have bread too to live.

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

We are not expecting Utopia here on this earth. But God meant things to be much easier than we have made them. A man has a natural right to food, clothing, and shelter. A certain amount of goods is necessary to lead a good life.

I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

It's often hard for us to imagine going without some of our luxuries like travel, dining out, or Internet, much less our basic necessities like food and water. But try for a minute to imagine how life would be with such deprivations.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

It is not enough, for example, to acknowledge and respect every man's right to the means of subsistence if we do not strive to the best of our ability for a sufficient supply of what is necessary for his sustenance

No American should have to choose between heating and eating.

I see tens of millions of its citizens--a substantial part of its whole population--who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life.

The man who looks at an animal and sees beauty is a man who has eaten well.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

Yeah, I'll basically do anything to make money for food.

Of course, we all need to have basic necessities met, such as good health care, good food, good education and good housing. But what is good? Having too much is bad, as having too little is also bad.

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.