"Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces."

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Source : Marvin Harris (2011). “Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures”, p.229, Vintage

Marvin Harris

#Vegetarianism Quotes #Victory Quotes #India Quotes

“All who are genuinely committed to the advancement of women can and must offer a woman or a girl who is pregnant, frightened, and alone a better alternative than the destruction of her own unborn child”

Source : "Hillary Clinton Tells Activists It's Up to Them / `You will be the key players,' she says to women at forum" by Pamela Burdman, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 1995.
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
“Devoutly the teachers point out huge fumigated domes; but beneath the statues there's no love, no love beneath the eyes set in crystal. Love is there, in flesh ripped by thirst, in the tiny hut struggling against the flood; love is there, in ditches where snakes of hunger wrestle, in the sad sea that rocks dead gulls, and in the darkest stinging kiss under pillows.”
“if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true”
“The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.”
“I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.”
“We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only one finger...Even if that one finger is extremely strong, it will prove almost impossible to pick up that pencil unless you use your other fingers or some other part of your hand. Teamwork is a bit like using all of your fingers. Each one is unique and contributes something different, but they unite in pursuit of a common goal.”
“You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail.”

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