"Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now."

-- Mark Bittman

#Kings Quotes #Thrones Quotes #Subsidies Quotes

“One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.”

Source : Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
“Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly”
“Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.”
“The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.”
“The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.”

Source : Dee Brown (2012). “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West”, p.252, Open Road Media
“There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists.”
“The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. Herein lies the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.”
“we wish for more in life rather than more of it.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1873). “Off the Skelligs: Collection of British and American Authors”, p.293

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