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The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person’s existence. Gao Xingjian
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The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person’s existence. Gao Xingjian
Human hopes and human creeds; have their root in human needs. Eugene Fitch Ware
Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man’s enslavement and all the horrors it entails. Emma Goldman
The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one’s ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak to vital human needs, interests and desires, and therefore will be persuasive to many and ultimately most people. But this is a very different matter from deciding to put forward only those ideas … Read more
If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. So you make the system to fulfill that need, rather than starting the other way around, where you have … Read more
So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth. Each day shall bring its problems new. And men shall dream of mightier deeds than ever have been done before. There always shall be human needs for men to work and … Read more
This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed–a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy–a law to … Read more
Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need. Frances Moore Lappé
I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem – and eating some of it doesn’t directly take food out of the mouths of starving people – but it is, to me, a symbol and a symptom of the basic irrationality of a food system that’s divorced from … Read more
It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized. Donna Dubinsky