Cases Quote by Marvin Harris

“Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments we'll accept…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to…

— Marvin Harris

Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than…

— Alexander Schmemann

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will…

— Rajneesh

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to…

— Dorothee Solle

We do not mark out any precise line to be followed in diet; but we do say that in countries where there are fruits,…

— Ellen G. White

When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as…

— Peter Singer

People can only be content when there is enough food.

— Momofuku Ando

“A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in point of…

— George Orwell

People have to have food for their souls.

— Haris Pasovic

When you go further and further into starvation you chose yourself, your mind becomes totally obsessed with not eating. It's like a religion where…

— Lena Andersson