Not necessity, not desire--no, the love of power is the demon of mankind. Grant them everything, health, food, housing, entertainm...ent--they are and remain unhappy and anxious: for the demon waits and waits, and wants to be satisfied.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health, you... worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it. These women are i...n bondage to a kind of slavery that the 13th Amendment just didn't deal with. The old master provided food, clothing and health care to the slaves because he wanted them to get up and go to work in the morning. And so on welfare: you get food, clothing and shelter--you get survival, but you can't really do anything else. You can't control your life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as nec...essary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not suggesting that there should be no morality and no self-restraint in regard to sex, any more than in regard to food. In r...egard to food we have restraints of three kinds, those of law, those of manners, and those of health. We regard it as wrong to steal food, to take more than our share at a common meal, and to eat in ways that are likely to make us ill. Restraints of a similar kind are essential where sex is concerned, but in this case they are much more complex and involve much more self-control. Moreover, since one human being ought not to have property in another, the analogue of stealing is not adultery, but rape, which obviously must be forbidden by law. The questions that arise in regard to health are concerned almost entirely with venereal disease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To her, my lord, Was I betrothed ere I saw Hermia;... But like a sickness did I loathe this food. But, as in health come to my natural taste, Now I do wish it, love it, long for it, And will for evermore be true to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She either gives a stomach and no food-- Such are the poor, in health; or else a feast... And takes away the stomach--such are the rich, That have abundance and enjoy it not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food, even in this ...latitude; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.... Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »