"For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation."

-- Lewis Thomas

#Greed Quotes #Heartlessness Quotes #Irresponsibility Quotes

“The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.”
“While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal when it shall have reduced ultimate laws to one or two, the necessity of which lies outside the sphere of our cognition. These ultimate laws-in the domain of physical science at least-will be the dynamical laws of the relations of matter to number, space, and time. The ultimate data will be number, matter, space, and time themselves. When these relations shall be known, all physical phenomena will be a branch of pure mathematics.”
“Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.”
“World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.”
“Love, after all, was universal. Qhuinn closed his fist up tight, and knew he would never, ever take that ring off. â€œAlways,â€ Blay murmured. â€œBecause family is an always kind of thing.”
“You can never plan what a song will do. I wrote Mr Pitiful song on a piano I paid $200 for and I definitely got my money's worth.”
“I don't know how many records I'm selling.”
“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”

Source : Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.78, A&C Black

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