"In modern society, where most people live in……" — James Buchan
"In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished."
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65 Quotes by James Buchan
James Buchan has 65 quotes on this site.
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Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
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A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as…
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a…
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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
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Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none…
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Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control…
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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit…
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
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All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from…
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When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due…
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Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden…
— Kuki Gallmann
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All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved…
— Rufus Wainwright
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No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to…
— Erica Jong
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The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to…
— Tori Amos
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I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when…
— Frances Mayes
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You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.
— Millicent Fenwick
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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
— Tertullian
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Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all…
— Thomas Love Peacock
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