Quote by 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.

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and whe

Summary

This quote suggests that in today's urban environment, where money can fulfill both our basic necessities and desires, the clear distinction between what we truly need and what we simply want have blurred. In this context, individuals are no longer able to differentiate between the things they require for survival and comfort and the things they desire for personal satisfaction. The quote reflects how urbanization and the prevalence of money as a medium for acquiring both needs and wants contribute to this loss of distinction in modern society.

Topics

Society

By James Buchan

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affec

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

Steve Prefontaine

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel & story-writing ability is employed as a means to formulate my perception. The core of my writing is not art but truth. Thus what I tell is the truth, yet I can do nothing to alleviate it, either by deed or explanation. Yet this seems somehow to help a certain kind of sensitive troubled person, for whom I speak. I think I understand the common ingredient in those whom my writing helps: they cannot or will not blunt their own intimations about the irrational, mysterious nature of reality, &, for them, my corpus is one long ratiocination regarding this inexplicable reality, an integration & presentation, analysis & response & personal history.

Philip K. Dick, Exegesis Philip

Authors & Writing

I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebr

I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.

Vinny Guadagnino

Respect

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

Science

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacramen

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

Work

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Publilius Syrus

Friends

There is nothing so stable as change.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Change

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

George S. Patton

History

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and tak

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

Antonio Banderas

Morning

It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy

It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. Psalms 119:71

Suffering

Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertainin

Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

Women