Basic Necessity Quotes

Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.

If you can't breathe, you can't do nothing.

We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You know, it is a part of the spiritual and the soulful experience and expression of being human and it is a necessity, as necessary as water, as breathing air.

Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.

Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.

Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

O, reason not the need!

If you're able to pay your bills, you pay your bills. It's as simple as that.

Your health is your starting point - without it, you have nothing.

I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Education is a basic necessity.

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.

Water is the worst thing to privatize. It’s what we need to live.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

Bread is the staff of life.

While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating.

I don't even have a computer.

In simple terms, I realised that food is the most fundamental need for a person. In difficult economic times, people's priorities change, and they might be willing to do something that secures for them the lowest possible weekly food bill.