Danger levels man and brute, and all are fellows in their need.

We all need to think we belong to other people.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life.

Need teaches a plan.

... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.