needs quotes

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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

The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Industry need not wish.

Our necessities never equal our wants.