Scotch-irish Quote by Shirley Abbott

“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who are hungry…

— Nick Mills

“Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.”

— A.J. Quinnell

“Workers who pick the food we eat cannot afford to feed themselves.”

— Barry Estabrook

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will…

— George Bernard Shaw

“We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live.”

— Michael Rank

“Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless…

— Vironika Tugaleva

“If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever…

— Breanna Sampson

“Yes, but there was the land. Money and food are eaten and gone, and if there is not sun and rain in proportion, there…

— Pearl S. Buck

“Even those who are materially poor have something to offer, and in doing so, open themselves up to the circular energy of generosity and…

— Stephen Richards

“He who will not work shall not eat.' Yet, so strong is the propensity to be thought 'gentlemen;' so general is this desire amongst…

— William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity.”

— Bill Buford