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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact. Jean-Paul Sartre
We want freedom, we want decent housing, we want education for our people, we want an immediate end to police brutality … Black Panthers, cited The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 2015
1981: The Human League: Don’t You Want Me. The Christmas No.1 Story, BBC 2012
After a time you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical but it is often true. Star Trek: Amok Time s2e1, Spock
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. Socrates, cited Diogenes Laertius ‘Lives of Eminent Philosophers’
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction ... The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness. William Henry Beveridge, 1879-1963, British economist
So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything. William Hazlitt, Literary Remains, 1836
The good want power, but to weep barren tears,
The powerful goodness want: worse need for them.
The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, 1820
Coltrane opens door: ... Well? What do you want?
Postman: The usual things. Peace. Happiness. The Comic Strip Presents ... Dirty Movie, Channel 4 1984
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can’t people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me. Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
I don’t know what they want. I know what I want. Bullet to Beijing 1995 starring Michael Caine & Jason Connery & Mia Sara & Michael Gambon & Michael Sarrazin & Lev Prygunov & Anatoly Davidov & Sue Lloyd & Burt Kwouk et al, director George Mihalka, Palmer to bird on dog-n-bone
You can change what you do, but not what you want. Peaky Blinders s3e3, Tommy, BBC 2016
It doesn’t matter what you want. You didn’t want to be king in the north. What happens when they demand you press your claim and take what is mine? Game of Thrones s8e4: The Last of the Starks, Daenerys to Jon Snow, HBO 2019
Lester is this what you want? Yes or no. Fargo s1e9: A Fox, a Rabbit & a Cabbage, Malvo, TX 2014
What do you want from me, Eve? Do you want me to love you or do you want me to frighten you? Killing Eve s2e6: I Hope You Like Missionary! husband to Eve, BBC 2019
… Give the People what they want
You gotta give the people what they want
The more they get, the more they need
And every time they get harder and harder to please … The Kinks, Give the People What They Want
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. Alice Cooper
What we most want is only to be held … and told … that everything is going to be all right. Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms, 1948