From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish, sincerely and energetically. See Marx 558:14.

-Bakunin, Mikhail Alekseyevich
  Anarchists'declaration, signed by the 47 defendants after the failed uprising in Lyons.

   For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again: neither doth God respect any person.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel14:14.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of todayare no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages wrought by the technology of yesterday.

-Gabor, Dennis
  Innovations.

She stands an instant in the sun Athwart her harsh land's red and greenö Hands of a serf, and warrior eyes Of some flame-sceptred Irish queen. † As if she does not care that life Has reft the jewels from her hairö But grieves that menial needs and base Were those that left her palace bare.

-Hyde, Robin pseudonym of IrisGuiver Wilkinson
  The Godwits Fly, ch.23. This poem is an adaptation of 'The Farmer's Wife', first published in The Desolate Star (1929).

Only in a higher phase of communist society†can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety, and society inscribe on its banners,'From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!' See Bakunin 53:25.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  Critique of the Gotha Programme, May.

   It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.

-Renoir, Pierre Auguste
From Renoir's notebook, quoted in L Nochlin Impressionism and Post-Impressionism1874^1904 (1966).

Ihaveno doubtthat it ispossibletogiveanewdirectionto technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.

-Schumacher, E(rnst) F(riedrich)
  Small Is Beautiful.