“Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.” MenHumansBornHuman BeingsExistenceViolenceConditionsNormalEatingConscienceFellowsKillingFleshFellow ManBarbarismAbhorrent Book:Why We Can't Wait Source: Why We Can't Wait
“The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.” EndsHomeSuccessfulWeekEatingSummerConscienceDinnerGardeningTruckCornGardenerBeansPackagingFreezerWeek End Author:Phyllis McGinley
“But if one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.” IfsWantCharacterEatingConscienceWeightWhat You WantDietsAbrahamArcs Author:Maria Franziska von Trapp
“Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.” FeelsYearsHumansChildrenReasonDreamCareLawPoliticalPurposeLosesAnimalPartyWasteEatingConscienceDon't CareNostalgiaTeethJustificationApologizingOffenseBrushesPolitical PartiesIdenticalStainsEating AnimalsTime CapsulesKeepsakes Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?” MenHeartMayArtBookPassionHe ManEatingConscienceCooksGrievingCivilizedDeceivingWithout LoveDiningWithout HopePiningWithout Friends Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
“I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.” WorldBelieveBodyI BelieveSimpleHealthyEatingConscienceCleanIllSatisfyingHealthy BodySimple Food Book:Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food! Source: Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!