Charles Wagner Quotes

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Survival must come before civilization.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Well, I mean, bread, I mean, I've got to have bread too to live.

Man is born to eat.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

It is not enough, for example, to acknowledge and respect every man's right to the means of subsistence if we do not strive to the best of our ability for a sufficient supply of what is necessary for his sustenance

Harvesting the biosphere is still the most fundamental human activity. Without that, everybody's dead, really. We could do quite well without microchips, or the business site of 'Atlantic Monthly,' the gated communities, Guccis, and high-growth GDP. But we cannot do without harvesting the crops and cutting down the wood.

I never tried to make money - just enough to be able to eat.

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.

First and foremost: Feed people.

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

The belly comes before the soul.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

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

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday we are breathing in and breathing out, but do we ever feel grateful to the air? If we do not drink water, we cannot survive. Even our body is composed to a large extent of water.But do we give any value to water? Every morning when we open our eyes, we see the sun blessingfully offering us light and life-energy, which we badly need. But are we grateful to the sun?