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Us Quotes by Michael Pollan
- There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive…
- Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.
- In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know - "relationship marketing," as…
- The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.
- While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of…
- So that's us: processed corn, walking.
- But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those…
- The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion…
- Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent…
- Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type…
- That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or…
- This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to…
- This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle