„The single highest priority need for the human is actually love and belonging. This need is actually more of a priority than basic survival needs. How do I know this? Because when the physical human is deprived of love and belonging, they often stop eating and drinking and stop meeting their basic survival needs and sometimes go so far as to take their own life. Any of you who have had a particularly painful break-up know exactly what I mean.“
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— José Saramago Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature 1922 - 2010
Quoted in New African (IC Magazines Limited, 2003), p. 25.

— Muhammad Yunus Bangladeshi banker, economist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 1940
Profile at North American Bangladesh Info Center http://www.bongoz.com/people/yunus.html

„Do you know what I really need?
I need love love love love love, yeah!“
— Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)

„Laughter is a basic human need, along with love, and food, and an HBO subscription.“
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus American actress, comedian and producer 1961
Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech (2018)

— Jerzy Vetulani Polish scientist 1936 - 2017
Kobos, Andrzej (2007). Po drogach uczonych. 2. Kraków: Polish Academy of Learning. pp. 491–524 (in Polish).

„All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.“
— Sue Monk Kidd, buch The Mermaid Chair
Quelle: The Mermaid Chair

— Stanley Tookie Williams American criminal 1953 - 2005
Democracy Now! interview (2005)
Kontext: I’m talking to any youth who are considered to be or deemed to be at-risk or even hinting around being a thug or a criminal of any type of genre. I mostly propagate education and the need for it, because to me, that is the terra firma in which any human being must stand in order to survive in this country or to survive anywhere in the world, in dealing, you know, with every aspect of civilization, every aspect of surviving. Education is very important. It took me all of these years to discern that, and now I do.

„When you're called up you don't need many personal belongings — not when you love either.“
— Stig Dagerman, buch A Burnt Child
Quelle: A Burnt Child (1948), p. 203
— Edwin H. Land American scientist and inventor 1909 - 1991
As quoted in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 146, no. 1, (March 2002), p. 115
Kontext: If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. So you make the system to fulfill that need, rather than starting the other way around, where you have something and wonder what to do with it.
— Donald Miller, buch Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

— Stevie Wonder American musician 1950
Love's In Need of Love Today
Song lyrics, Songs In The Key of Life (1976)