Food & Drink Sayings

144 sayings found from the Modern era from 144 authors

The greatest evil in the world is the evil which is done by nobody, the evil which is done by all of us.

— Hannah Arendt 1964
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson 1844
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The greatest of evils is to be guilty of none.

— Henry David Thoreau 1849
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The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism.

— Friedrich Engels 1848
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The purpose of production is to create wealth, not to support parasites.

— Ayn Rand 1957
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The great task of life is to unite the conscious with the unconscious.

— Sigmund Freud Approx. early 20th century
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

— Carl Jung 1933
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The ideal of a body of knowledge to which all men can contribute and which all men can use has been the great motivating force of science.

— B.F. Skinner 1953
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Our faith is faith in some one else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most true.

— William James 1896
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The great danger that threatens the young nation is the intellectual laziness of its ruling class.

— Frantz Fanon 1961
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The naming of the world, which is an act of creation and re-creation, is not possible if it is not associated with the transformation of the world.

— Paulo Freire 1968
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The highest wisdom has but one science, the science of the whole, the science of understanding God, the understanding of creation and destiny.

— Leo Tolstoy 1869
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Man has an innate craving for freedom, but at the same time he has a greater craving for happiness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky Mid-Late 19th Century
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The whole world is a great big satisfying thing.

— Charles Dickens 1865
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The human soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

— Victor Hugo 1862
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Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenseless. When it is done, when the night is past, it is gone like a dream.

— Franz Kafka 1910
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God made food, the devil made cooks.

— James Joyce Unknown
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Anonymity is a great comfort.

— Virginia Woolf 1929
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The greatest danger to freedom is an apathetic citizenry.

— George Orwell Approx. 1940s
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We are not always what we seem, and there is a great deal of difference between what we are and what we think we are.

— Aldous Huxley Unknown
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