"Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most."

-- Emily Levine

#Growth Quotes #Problem Quotes #Obesity Quotes

“In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like a thousand mouths on my body, devouring me in fluttering small bites. To die beneath their tender gluttony seems the culmination of every temptation I have ever known.”

Source : Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.188, Penguin
“Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.”
“I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.”
“Two years were all we had, love," she whispered, "and we squandered them.”
“The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.”
“And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate.”
“To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.”
“Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.”

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