George Orwell Quotes

Man is born to eat.

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

I eat to survive, you know?

You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

There's one thing we all share: We eat to nurture ourselves, to feel stronger.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

What do people want? Well, you really can’t talk about wants until you talk about needs.

If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.

I think it's one of the most natural things for any human to do is to be able to run because it's that flight or fight reaction you have. You either fight or you run away. It's just a natural way for us to move.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.

Eating is a natural way to feel happy. Overeating isn't.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

First the grub, then the morals.