Quote by Aldous Huxley

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

— Aldous Huxley

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

— Aldous Huxley

“Food should be like this—elemental, honest, a little cruel. It should make no apologies for what it was, and it shouldn’t allow the eater…

— Jade Chang

“Well, we are making war for civilization, are we not? Very well, we are. Therefore, we eat in a civilized way.”

— Emily Post

“Food didn't kill people, for God's sake, people killed people. With their harping, and criticizing, and careful living.”

— Nina Killham

“Apparently the soft cheese I'd been served possessed a rind.A rind any civilized person would have recognized as inedible and meant to be pared…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says, Why did…

— Bethany Pierce

“The food was bad, the people were angry,”

— Paul S. Kemp

“All around him people were eating their unfood wih, if not actual evidence of enjoyment, then with no more actual disgust than was to…

— Terry Pratchett

“But more than this - not even, after your victims have been killed, will you eat them just as they are from the slaughter-house.…

— Plutarch

“Once upon a time, we ate to sustain ourselves. Now food itself is toxic.”

— Mark Schatzker

“Two-dollar beers that tasted like barely fermented, yeasty water. We salivated. There was no coursing - in ten minutes plates started pounding the spinning…

— Stephanie Danler