Community Quote by Christopher Ryan

“And there’s your pecking order of unhappiness, right there in a nutshell. Of all the overwhelming compulsions you can be ruined by, all of…

— Caitlin Moran

“After all, we know that the foraging societies in which human beings evolved were small-scale, highly egalitarian groups who shared almost everything. There is…

— Christopher Ryan

“The desire to possess is marked by an unceasingly growing, voracious element that manifests itself in the simple desire to have more, but also…

— Dorothee Soelle

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and…

— Robert Greene

“Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.”

— John Steinbeck

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share

— Quentin Crisp

“I love the treat and pleasure of eating when it becomes an act of focused giving and sharing...Wasting money and appetite on bad food…

— Lucy Knisley

Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in…

— James Hillman

“Perhaps as the sway of tradition in our eating decisions weakens, habits we once took for granted are thrown up in the air, where…

— Michael Pollan

Talking about food arouses certain individuals the way talking about sex does others.

— Bert Greene

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer…

— Kathleen Norris

“...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually…

— Evan D.G. Fraser