“Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.” DonePoliticalRocksEatingYesterdayRock N RollPolitical Activism Author:Patti Smith
“However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.” PeopleIfsLittlesCountryWisdomJobsPoliticalEnergyProductsPoliticianEatingMachinesWorkersIdeologyRoutineDistributionMachinery Book:Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity Source: Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
“Paris was incredible. Everything about it for me, from spending hours eating, drinking and talking to walking through the streets...at that time I hadn't seen that sort of political passion in the youth, and I got to experience that first hand.” FirstsHandsPoliticalPassionHoursTalkingStreetsYouthWalkingEatingDrinkingIncrediblesSpendingParis Author:Kate Hudson
“Russian talk of political evil is as natural as eating.” PoliticalEvilNaturalEating Author:Joseph Brodsky
“If a person just takes what is socio-political and geographical from the themes of my films then that's not enough. But if the person goes out of the theatre and, for example, makes the dinner he's eating later on, extra nice then I feel that I have succeeded. We have this urge to anaesthetize the moment we're living in.” IfsFeelsPersonsEnoughMomentsFilmPoliticalNiceExampleEatingDinnerTheatreExtrasThemeUrges Author:Elia Suleiman
“Globalization in part means that a lot of people are walking into the room and in some cases becoming influential or even dominant voices in the conversation. Sometimes they are like party-crashers coming in and pushing people around, scooping up the valuables and eating up the food in the frig - bribing political leaders, undermining traditional economies and the ways of life that are interwoven with them, replacing them with new economic models that effectively exploit developing countries for their labor and resources.” PeopleMeanCountrySometimesPoliticalLeaderEconomyEconomicWalkingEatingLaborGlobalizationInfluential Author:David Wong
“In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.” PoliticalHouseLeftWhiteBoysFourMediaEatingNewsMalesDecadesDustJournalismWhite HouseBusExposedOutsidersPacksReportersAlaskaInsidersGals Author:Michelle Malkin
“The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.” WarSoulPoliticalNationsMoralTerribleEatingCancerDisasterEstablishmentAntiwarStupidest Author:George McGovern
“I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.” LittlesMadeStatesHumorKidsFunnyPoliticalMotherPresidentUnitedUnited StatesHavensFoodEatingCookingMotherhoodPatrioticVegetablesLittle KidEating FoodFood And EatingBroccoliFunny Mothers Day Book:Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches Source: Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches
“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