Analysis Quote by Will Durant Download Open image “In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.” — Will Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Analysis Civilization Food Food supply Inspirational Lasts
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
“In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed for us a stage where we made one of the most crucial decisions in human history.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“We need to stop viewing our food as an industrial project and renew our view of it as a natural sustaining force.” — Bill Bowling Copy Share Image
We kind of know that food is necessary to survive. But our ways of connecting with food have been, in many ways, taken over… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the… — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability. — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place. — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's… — Michael Ovitz Copy Share Image
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We are well aware that he spent many hours recently tape recording various messages... we need to do a little more analysis of what… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
