Basic Survival Quotes

I don't live to eat, I eat to live.

I never tried to make money - just enough to be able to eat.

Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do. Nothing else much matters, there is no complicated diplomacy, when a child is starving. It's simple. And we'd better do something about it. For our sakes, too. That is, if we want to continue to call ourselves human.

Hunger allows no choice.

Survival must come before civilization.

If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Credibility is a basic survival tool.

Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.

So many people don't realise you need to be on a certain level of Maslow's hierarchy to have a dream: you have to have food and be safe from danger, all these things my parents didn't have at the get go, so I, from the very beginning, believe I have been living for multiple generations, for my parents and grandparents.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.