Basic Necessities Quotes

Every man a king." Every man to eat when there is something to eat; all to wear something when there is something to wear. That makes us all sovereign.

Gentlemen, I speak to you for the miners' families... The little children are gathered around a bare table without anything to eat. They are not asking for a $100,000 yacht like yours, Mr.______..." (here, he would gesture with his cigar toward an operator), "...or for a Rolls-Royce limousine like yours, Mr. _____..." (staring at another operator). They are asking only for a slim crust of bread.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.

People should have affordable places to live. That's a fundamental right.

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.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

When a poor man has bread, he has no salt, and when he has salt, he has no bread. If he has some seasoning he has no meat. If he has some meat, he has no seasoning.

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

The next civil right should be some kind of civil right for livelihood.

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

The human body needs air, water and food. Only the good Lord makes air and water. Only farmers and ranchers make food.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

The poorest still deserve help with life's basic necessities regardless of the quality of their government.

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

Oh my God - this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

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

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.