“You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions o...” — Christopher Dawson Quote

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

While government and public-health advocates strive to educate the public, and prevent disease, the food industry frequently acts in opposition to those goals, producing processed foods that are high in sugar, salt, artificial ingredients and calories.

There's all kinds of research that shows children operate best if they start the day with some proper food inside them - it's a no-brainer.

Food is a lens for culture.