Human Wants Quotes

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs.

Guys all want something beyond what they're being given - in every facet of life.

I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.

Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted.

Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to land. In order to earn profits in free markets, entrepreneurs must identify and satisfy human wants and do so in a way that economizes on society's scarce resources.

As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.

The Manufactures of the World may be reduced to two sorts; that is, the Necessary, which consist in all that is wrought for Man's Necessities or conveniences; and the Superfluous, which consist in all that is wrought, and serves to gratify his Vanity or Pleasures.