Is the desire to be amused a universal need?

There is no intrinsic reason why education, an equally universal and vital need, should remain in local control.

Together, they all face life, death, and the universal need to reach out for someone.

"These artists tell us they had the same universal need for symbolism that we have," he says.

They might be more able to relate to it through the universal human need to dance.

What they teach us about universal needs and particulars are another.

Understanding the past appears to be a universal human need, and the telling of history has emerged independently in civilisations around the world.

Humans have many different ways of leading satisfying lives, and genuinely universal needs are hard to find.

But the back story of the disaster is obscured by the universal need to rebound.

Recent research appears to validate the existence of universal human needs.