“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?” WorldGivingHeartDoeRunningAbleSpiritualHumanityAsksWaterSimplePoorCompassionMoralCuttingEconomicExampleBrokenAmountDemandEatingMassIndiaBlameDistanceCancerOilMusclesFarmersConsumerismBleedingPumpsOverconsumptionGasolineGallons Author:Richard J. Foster
“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.” TwoWarEndsSometimesLanguagePoorWatchesBreakTakenGroupsSocietyStrangeHolyCreaturesBehaviorEatingRiversEggsCommandmentsTribesMonkeysPotatoesHeresyWashingCrusadesDivingBewilderment Author:Arthur Koestler
“I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.” ThinkingKnowsMenPoorKnow HowToo MuchFoolHabitHealthyEatingNegativeExcellentUnhealthyConnotationEating Habits Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning.” GivingEnoughStoriesEyeMovingSongSleepPoorNeededMetsEatingMovedFolksPityHis EyesColourRitualLegendsFrameworkTapestryMatingBowels Author:S.M. Stirling
“Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?” PeopleMayPleasurePoorConditionsTvsActivityEatingAvailableMeaningfulIceFormerConsumersDecentBuyingLatterGoodsRulersMinorsApartmentCreamIce CreamUnlikelyAutonomousBrainwashedConesPoor FamilyIce Cream Cones Author:Ellen Willis
“What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?” PoorCompanyTakenGreaterEatingMortalsMealsGood MealsLoving Friends Book:Lark Rise to Candleford Source: Lark Rise to Candleford
“You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.” NeedsStillsParentPoorHabitEatingActiveNeed YouI Need YouEating Habits Author:Bob Harper
“The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.” MenDifferencesPoorRichPleaseEatingFormerLatterRich ManPoor Man Author:Walter Raleigh
“In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.” WellsLittlesArtCultureLostStuffPoorStreetsWalkingEatingSpeedDrivingFuelAlsDisorderNutritionWorkplaceNormSurfingObesityEating DisorderTollsDiningEating WellSurfing The Web Author:Carl Honore
“I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.” PeopleWantShouldProblemBigsWantedPoorSubjectsSeriousWasteEatingThinkerConsumptionDocumentariesPoor PeopleSerious Subjects Author:Agnes Varda
“It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.” MeanLittlesHoursLosesPoorFiveHappenedMonthsHabitEatingGainsTwentiesPoundsStomachEating HabitsGood Eating Author:Mila Kunis
“When you're missing your two front teeth, that's honesty. That is a door to your oral history. You're not covering anything up. You're saying, 'Hey world, I'm missing my front teeth. I'm gross; I'm dirty; I'm poor. I clearly have no problem with public urination and eating garbage. Don't come near me, I'll gum you to death!” WorldTwoProblemPoorDoorsMissingFrontsHonestyEatingTeethHeyDirtyNo ProblemGrossGarbageCoveringGumOral History Author:Iliza Shlesinger
“In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."” WayNeedsPersonsProblemCultureWaitingLosesLinesWealthPoorHavensEatingWeightChinaChainsConsumptionRiceFast FoodLose WeightFood ChainWeight ProblemsEating Less Author:Neal Barnard
“Once you are sincere in your fast, you have a sensitivity to the hurt and pain of others who are poor, who are not eating well, who are in areas where there is drought and other calamities.” PainHurtPoorEatingSincereSensitivityDrought Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.” WorldLongPoorCarYouthEatingCaught Up Author:Michael Caine
“The working poor in the South are often blamed for their reliance on "traditional" Southern food, while in reality, most are eating the same heavily processed, cheap, convenience foods that the majority of working people eat across the United States.” PeopleRealityPoorEatingSouthernReliance Author:Marcie Cohen Ferris
“It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.” DoeRealKidsSocialPoorHealthyBenefitsEatingLifetimeExcuseFavorsMealsCrucialEmbarrassmentHealthy EatingBeginning Of LifeReal FoodPoor Health Author:Andrew Weil
“The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die — with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch.” KnowsSoulHandsBigsYoungDiesHeavenPoorWatchesNiceSeaOne DayOceanEatingDoctorsShipsSilverGrapesMoustacheYoung OnesSome Nice Author:Tennessee Williams