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Alain de Botton _ The News: A User's Manual
The kinds of purchases surveyed in the news generally sit well beyond necessity. In acquiring them, what we are after is rarely solely or even chiefly just material satisfaction; we are also guided by a deeper, often unconscious desire for some form of psychological transformation. We don't only want to things; we want to be through our ownership of them. Once we examine consumer behaviour with sufficient attention and generosity, it becomes clear that we aren't indelibly materialistic at all. What makes our age distinctive is our ambition to try to accomplish a variety of complex psychological goals via the acquisition of material goods.
book-quote life materialism change
Dante Alighieri _ Inferno
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. {Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.}
book-quote pleasure necessity
Frank Herbert _ Dune
Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.
book-quote love necessity mood
William Shakespeare _ King Lear
The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious.
book-quote need necessity misery
Joseph Conrad _ The Secret Sharer
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
book-quote invention necessity
Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me-to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.
book-quote freedom necessity service
Matthew Scully _ Dominion: The Power of Man,
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
book-quote evil animal-welfare animals