Hygiene Quotes - Page 6

• It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

  Anatole Broyard

  Love, Waiting, Forever

  Anatole Broyard (1974). “Aroused by Books”, Random House (NY)

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• Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Strong, Philosophy, Literature

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• How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

  Lytton Strachey

  Evil, Dubious, Literature

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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• Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Fear

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• I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal system is manipulated to create seed monopolies. Seed laws that require uniformity - which criminalize diversity and the use of open-pollinated seeds - are fascist in nature. Suing farmers after contaminating their crops, [...] is another aspect of this fascism. Pseudo-hygiene laws that criminalize local, artisanal food are food fascism. And attacks on scientists and the silencing of independent research [...] are examples of knowledge fascism.

  Vandana Shiva

  Independent, Law, Diversity

  "Farming Free: An Interview With Food Sovereignty Activist Vandana Shiva". Interview with Thaddeus Christian, www.motherearthnews.com. June/July 2014.

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• A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

  Trevor Nunn

  Analysis, Literature, Instinct

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• What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

  Herb Ritts

  New York, California, Pace

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• Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

  George Ade

  Literature, Should, Currents

  "Fables in Slang".

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• Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Teacher, Views, Literature

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• The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene.

  Zhuangzi

  Baby, Moving, Eye

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• I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

  Greg Louganis

  Media, Sexuality, Policy

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• Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind

  Gene Fowler

  Two, Mind, Enemy

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• Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

  George Orwell

  Loyalty, Pain, Struggle

  George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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