Any Quote by Richard Flanagan

“There is every reason why the standards in our civilization are so low, because we have "poisoned," in a literal sense of the word,…

— Alfred Korzybski

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as…

— Paul Goodman

“These things happen to poor people who live in exposed areas. Society is set up in such a way that it’s the poor and…

— Don DeLillo

“The greatest disease of mankind is a lack of love for children, leading to their psychological and sometimes even physical abuse, which predisposes those…

— Bernie Seigel

“HUMANS don’t generate toxic wastes—but our culture certainly does. HUMANS aren’t toxic to the face of the earth—but our culture certainly is. It’s vitally…

— Daniel Quinn

“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”

— Randolph M. Nesse

“Nature’s accidents are the universe’s way of throwing chance into a system which would die of too much orderliness. Hurricanes, droughts, floods, volcanic eruptions…

— Luke Rhinehart

“More and more individuals, owing to their bloodless indolence, will aspire to be nothing at all--in order to become the public: that abstract whole…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“You have no more right to go about among your fellows with a vinegary expression on your face, radiating mental poison, spreading the germs…

— Orison Swett Marden

“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered by our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”

— Randolph M. Nesse

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress…

— Ihara Saikaku

“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war,…

— Ashley Montagu