Fascinated Quote by Ronald Wright Download Open image “Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.” — Ronald Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fascinated History People Society
What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world. — Marcella Hazan Copy Share Image
“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Naturally and logically, people who forage rather than herd domestic beasts and tend crops for a living - that is, people who depend utterly… — David Petersen Copy Share Image
It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Urbanites tend to view eating as an event, a form of entertainment. They want things that are new, refreshing, mind-bending. It's not a huge… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
There are generations of people who don't know how to eat properly. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the environment and… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“Soon after man shows up in new lands, the big game starts to go missing. […] A bad smell of extinction follows Home sapiens… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get. — John Banville Copy Share Image
I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing,… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera. — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As far as being a coach, it's always fascinated me. It's a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you're dealing… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How… — Sheryl Lee Copy Share Image
I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company. — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image