James Buchan Quotes

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
James Buchan

Means, Support, Atheist

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
James Buchan

Islam, Democracy, Liberty

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
James Buchan

Poetry, Purpose, Importance

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
James Buchan

Today, Human, Water

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
James Buchan

Children, Royal, Errors

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
James Buchan

Financial, Sky, Pop

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.
James Buchan

War, Few, Since

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
James Buchan

Power, Down, Nuclear

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
James Buchan

Age, Three, Order

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
James Buchan

Money, Sometimes, Foreign

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
James Buchan

Good, History, Wait

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.
James Buchan

Life, Different, Addiction

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.
James Buchan

Real, Losing, Soon

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
James Buchan

Business, Interest, Higher

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
James Buchan

Wisdom, State, Virtue

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.
James Buchan

Wish, Between, Line

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
James Buchan

Doubt, Fall, Empire

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.
James Buchan

Best, Write, Ourselves

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
James Buchan

Peace, Justice, Middle

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
James Buchan

Money, Themselves, Pay

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
James Buchan

Nature, Government, Science

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
James Buchan

Science, Last, Prosperity

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night.
James Buchan

Women, God, Men

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.
James Buchan

History, Truth, Political

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.
James Buchan

Money, Woman, Give

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Nationality: British

Born: June 11, 1954

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