#necessities

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #cemetery #colony #earliest #founders

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#daily #dull #enjoyments #habit #into

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#ever #go #going #into #necessities

Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#considers #delegates #himself #joe #lesser

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#ere #hast #long #necessities #need

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. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#alienation #away #basic #collectivism #countries

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose? ↗

— John Wesley

#christianity #clothing #compassion #evangelism #faithfulness

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#commercial #creative #i #least #lot

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ↗

— Mark Twain

#limitless #multiplication #necessities #unnecessary

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. ↗

— John Updike

#bodies #female #glowing #male #messages