Marvin Harris Quotes

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.