“This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal.”

Speech at the Oxford Farming Conference https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46743164, BBC News, 3 January 2019 <br class="br">2019

After saying the US shouldn&#x27;t have gone into Iraq in the first place <br class="br"> CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/07/60minutes/main693705.shtml (May 2005) <br class="br">2000 - 2005

Context: We hope for lives whose story leaves us looking admirable; we like our weaknesses to be hidden and deniable... We want to enjoy our lives, and we want to enjoy them with a good conscience... Ethics is disturbing. We are often vaguely uncomfortable when we think of such things as exploitation of the world's resources, or the way our comforts are provided by the miserable labour conditions of the third world... Racists and sexists, like antebellum slave owners in America, always have to tell themselves a story that justifies their system.

Simon Blackburn, Being Good (2001)

Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile (2005)

Source: Why Not Me?

Philippine Free Press. Manila. April 28, 1928.
ULOL
Context: What I want to impress on our youth is the necessity of thoroughly preparing themselves for their life's work. As a rule they bluff their way through life, pulling plums out of life's pudding by hook or by crook. They seem to hold the notion that knowledge is not essential to great achievements as courage. They overvalue courage forgetting that without knowledge it is only recklessness... Less bluff, more study.

St. 7.
A Psalm of Life (1839)
Source: Voices of the Night