Quotes about Necessities

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

To follow Jesus today is to follow a madman according to the ideals of present day civilization. We have the idea that our civilization is God-ordained, whereas it has been built up by ourselves. We have made a thousand and one necessities until our system of civilized life is as cast iron, and then we apologize to the Lord for not following Him.

Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.

There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

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.

Why did they have so many clothes, anyway? Life was so much easier in India, where a boy needed only a pair of shorts.

A person can live a day without silver or gold, but coffee? No thanks.

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities.

But if the want of those things which are necessary for the support of the living, as food and clothing, though painful and trying, does not break down the fortitude and virtuous endurance of good men, nor eradicate piety from their souls, but rather renders it more fruitful, how much less can the absence of the funeral, and of the other customary attentions paid to the dead, render those wretched who are already reposing in the hidden abodes of the blessed!

A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.