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• Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Wine, Men, Hands

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• Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.

  George Horne

  Men, Salt, Hungry

  George Horne (1818). “The works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: to which are prefixed memoirs of his life, studies, and writings”, p.421

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• I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.

  Antonin Artaud

  Heart, Men, Hands

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.94, Univ of California Press

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• You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

  Robert Moses

  Want, Way, Kind

  "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.

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• It is not just that it is profoundly offensive to the leaders and people of a democratic Germany to paint Hitler on the wall (or on the remnants of the Wall). It is also consummately counterproductive. Such sauce does not make the meat of substantive criticism more interesting. It means that the whole dish is pushed away. It does not mean that Britain's voice is listened to more attentively in the councils of Europe. It means that it is listened to even less.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Wall, Mean, Europe

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• I come fresh from the street, fast on my feet, kind a lean and lazy; not much meat on my bones, and a whole lot alone, and more than a little bit crazy. The old six string was all I had to keep my belly still, and for each full hour lesson I gave I got a crisp ten dollar bill.

  Harry Chapin

  Crazy, Feet, Lazy

  Song: I Wanna Learn a Love Song

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• A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Issues, Vices

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

  Prince

  Brother, Maturity, Animal

  Song: Animal Kingdom, Album: The Truth

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• There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.

  Gary L. Francione

  Meaningful, Animal, Glasses

  Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.108, Columbia University Press

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• A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Order, Needs, Carnivores

  "Lesser Evils" by Michael Ignatieff, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 2004.

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• The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?

  Thomas Malthus

  Country, Three, Enough

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.40, eKitap Projesi

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• Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Vegetarianism, Cake, Healthy

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• Without [hatred] Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it.

  Keith Olbermann

  Hatred, Bags, Bigs

  "Who You Calling 'Mashed Up Bag of Meat'?". www.theatlantic.com. October 14, 2009.

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• Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.

  L. Neil Smith

  Reality, Media, Space

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded.

  L. Neil Smith

  Government, San Francisco, Long

  "It Has to Cost Them Something". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 08, 2009.

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• Although the Great Leader told us that we have to let the people eat rice with meat soup, wear silk clothes and live in a tiled roof house, we have not accomplished his will. We have already reached the status of a strong country in the military field, let alone politics and ideology, but there are still quite a number of things lacking in people's lives. I am trying to implement his will by solving these problems.

  Kim Jong Il

  Country, Strong, Military

  "What Does Kim Jong Il’s Confession Imply?" by Yang Jung A, english.dailynk.com. January 11, 2010.

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• I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.

  Devin Townsend

  Night, Thinking, Compassion

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• When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.

  Jacques Pepin

  War, Years, People

  "Chef Jacques Pepin on Food and the Power of Memory" by Sarah Rosenberg and Tom McCarthy, abcnews.go.com. September 15, 2009.

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• If you say you don't have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?

  Tsem Tulku

  Animal, Shelter, Helping

  FaceBook post by H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche from Sep 30, 2011

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• As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Garden, Smell

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• Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the earth is an unmistakable way. Directly or indirectly it provides the bulk of man's food, his meat, his bread, every scrap of his cereal diet. Without grass we would all starve, we and all our animals. And what a dismal place this world would be!

  Hal Borland

  Men, Animal, Clothes

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• This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Fishing, Rivers

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 8

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• The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than necessary, as the new morality of catch-and-release has shown. What is important is what happens between people on fishing trips, especially between uncles and nephews, fathers and sons, old men in general and young boys in particular, it is one of the few times men are together without women.

  Paul G. Quinnett

  Uncles, Father, Home

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• Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Philosophy, Drinking

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• You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Philosophy, Mean

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