“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
“When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.” WorldTwoWarMatterThreeEatingStandardsRaisesCookingLifetimeMeals Author:Will Rogers
“The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs.. .May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything [a. o. using his bed sheets as canvas for the new paintings].” WorldHumansMayWarEndsAsksPiecesBloodBedNormalEatingShotsHungerWar Of The WorldsBoredomFollyBombsReportsSpiteClimbsChairsWorld War IiEntertainingWorld War IAgain And AgainCanvasNaziSheetsPersecutionCavesSpectatorsDistinguishedPardonGrotesqueBed Sheets Author:Max Beckmann
“American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?” PeopleMindWarReasonEarthNationsBecomingDrugEatingInnocentFakeExceptionalJunkJunk FoodPharmaceuticalObeseExceptionalismAmerican ExceptionalismWaging War Author:Gerald Celente
“I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.” PeopleLooksKindWarTelevisionLimitsEatingBeatsJokesSittingCancerWarriorNot SureSatSurvivorTerritoryTopicsSoupCancer SurvivorRoommateWatching TelevisionNew TerritoryBeat Cancer Author:Amy Schumer
“The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.” ImportantWarHomePeaceEatingDefenseBeansThugJellyNational DefenseJelly Bean Author:Dick Gregory
“Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife.” WarEatingRebellionKnivesSoupMessy Author:Edward Thomas
“Europe has another meaning for me. Every time I mention that word, I see the Bosnian family in front of me, living far away from whatever they call home and eating their own wonderful food because that's all that is left for them. The fact remains that after fifty years, it was possible to have another war in Europe; that it was possible to change borders; that genocide is still possible even today.” YearsStillsWarFactsHomeTodayLeftWonderfulFrontsEatingEuropeRemainsBordersFiftyGenocideFar AwayBosnians Author:Slavenka Drakulic
“If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.” IfsNeedsWarReasonEnoughAnimalPathGreaterHabitEatingPursueSecureNeighbourEating Animals Author:Socrates
“The Domino Effect could stand for anything. It could be just the simple game of the domino rocks falling off one after another, all kinds of decision we make that come back to our face. For example take an anorexic model that stops eating until she dies, or the bombs that a are thrown in a war and the effect they have on people, or even something simple as listening to a record that you like until you get bored of it and leave it in your shelf.” PeopleKindWarFacesDiesFallGamesSimpleDecisionRecordsEffectsRocksExampleListeningEatingModelsAll KindsBoredBombsThrownShelvesFalling OffAnorexicsDecisions We MakeDomino Effect Author:Leo Lionni
“I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.” WorldWarBodyMy OwnPovertyShareEatingFairsViolentHypocriteStarvationAdvocatingFair Share Author:Bryant H. McGill
“Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep. What's hard to explain now is that, though we were never invaded, and bombed only once and ineffectively on the coast of Oregon, everybody in the country was in that war. Everything we did was influenced by it - eating, traveling, dressing, thinking - everything in daily life.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWarCountryHardWholeViewsKnow HowGrowing UpGrowingEatingWar Of The WorldsDaily LifeAffectedWorld War IiWorld War ICoastDressingsOregon Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“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 remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.” WorldYearsWarSchoolRememberEatingMy FriendsBreadMiserableWar Of The WorldsVegetarianPortionsCheeseSecond World WarCoffinsLumpsContainersPuddingSpamBread Pudding Author:Robert Winston
“If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story?” IfsWarStoriesChoicesGivenAnimalViolenceEatingChosenVersionsMealsHarvestSlaughterTruestEating Animals Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.” WarBigsFineEatingBlueRanShadePigsCrawlingPorchAugustusRattlesnakesTug Of War Book:Lonesome Dove: A Novel Source: Lonesome Dove: A Novel
“Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the people. We have made war upon it, and we mean to win it. If we can, we will win through the ballot box; if not, then we shall resort to sterner means.” PeopleIfsMeanMadeWarWinningCausesWealthCommonPovertyStruggleEatingBoxesSubstanceResortsBallotsEconomic InequalityWe Will Win Author:William H. Sylvis