Kaupena Quotes & Sayings

'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig. — Michael Specter

Technology has its own ethic of expediency and efficiency. What can be done efficiently must be done in the most efficient way - even if what is done happens, for example, to be genocide or the devastation of a country by total war. Even the long-term interests of society, or the basic needs of man himself, are not considered when they get in the way of technology. We waste natural resources, as well as those of undeveloped countries, iron, oil, etc., in order to fill our cities and roads with a congestion of traffic that is in fact largely useless, and is a symptom of the meaningless and futile agitation of our own minds. — Thomas Merton

I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe. We can't necessarily trust the decisions that are being made financially in other countries. — Michele Bachmann

Necessity is the ethnicity of truth. — Kedar Joshi

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green. — John Ruskin

A book should be made like a watch and sold like a sausage. — Oliverio Girondo

Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

NONE but Jesus can give deliverance to captives. Real liberty cometh from Him only. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani, it is not possible for egoism to decrease. — Dada Bhagwan

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive. — Barbara Cook