Peter Singer Quotes

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

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

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

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.

Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.

What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

The belly has no ears.

It's shocking to me still, that children - just because of where they're born - are born into a life of extreme poverty and hunger. Humans, we can survive without a lot of luxuries we are lucky to live with. But the thing we need most is healthy food and clean water. Without that we can't survive and we can't thrive.

You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

You aren't alive if you aren't in need.

It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

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.

The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.