I want nothing to do with natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get. —George Burns More about this quote Tags: age food preservatives Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. —Rachel Carson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fake food — I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut — is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking. —Julia Child More about this quote Tags: morality nature deception food eating Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This was the dawn of plastic eating in America. . . . We doted on Velveeta. Spam. Canned ravioli. Instant puddings. Instant anything. The farther a thing was from the texture, flavor, and terrifying unpredictability of real food, the better. —Shirley Abbott More about this quote Tags: reality USA America food better flavor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. —Rudyard Kipling More about this quote Tags: death lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War would end if the dead could return. —Stanley Baldwin More about this quote Tags: war death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is my intention to make my entire life a rejection of, a protest against the crimes and injustices of war and political tyranny which threaten to destroy the whole race of [humankind] and the world with [it] . . . . I make monastic silence a protest against the lies of politicians, propagandists, and agitators, and when I speak it is to deny that my faith and my church can ever be aligned with these forces of injustice and destruction. But it is true, nevertheless, that the faith in which I believe is also invoked by many who believe in war, believe in racial injustices, believe in self-righteous and lying forms of tyranny. My life must, then, be a protest against these also, and perhaps against these most of all. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: justice war humanity politics life silence rejection church crime protest faith lies racism tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection. —Crystal Eastman More about this quote Tags: tyranny protection deceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People want to be who they are. People don't want to assume a kind of identity . . . this persona that Americans think makes us the envy of the rest of the world. Even within our own borders there are three hundred different cultures who do not envy Americans so much that they want to give up their tribal status. —Louise Erdrich More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations. . . . The root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame. —Dorothy L. Sayers More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
History is a vast early warning system. —Norman Cousins More about this quote Tags: history Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to [travel to] Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant. —Senator J. William Fulbright More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is isolation that is critical to war. You can't be abusive when you realize your connectedness. —David Kadlec More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. —François de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America is addicted to wars of distraction. —Barbara Ehrenreich More about this quote Tags: war America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email