Raj Patel Quotes

#1. 'Generation Food' is a collaboration between myself and author/activist Raj Patel that will tell stories about efforts around the world to try to solve the food crisis - through a documentary, a book, a website and mobile apps.

Steve James

#2. If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

Stephen Covey

#3. Whenever it rains, I remember him, not as a tear that hails down as a raindrop, but as a God of fertility. As, every time I remember him, his memories conceive a baby of emotions in me!

Mehek Bassi

#4. Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connected to everyone I disappear ... in being excellent you lose yourself. And when you're connected to everyone, that's the best thing that can happen.

Raj Patel

#5. For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.

Raj Patel

#6. Food sovereignty ... is most of all characterized by it's conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

Raj Patel

#7. If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for?

Ralston Bowles

#8. The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make our own and learn from them. That is the art of democracy. That is the art of citizenship.

Raj Patel

#9. Far from being a "luxury for the rich," organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.

Raj Patel

#10. If you want to solve a big problem, you need to go from taking credit, to sharing credit, to multiplying credit. The systems that all work, multiply credit. Multiplying credit is just another way of making everyone in the system feel ownership. And the byproduct is both resilience and propulsion.

Thomas L. Friedman

#11. Be courageous. Get out of your comfort zone to live fully and abundantly.

Debasish Mridha

#12. If emotional issues remain unaddressed over long periods of time, sometimes they can manifest as physical blocks or disease.

Brandon Bays

#13. The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.

Raj Patel

#14. Love is a bonfire. It's every kind word. It's every sincere apology. It's every compromise.

Nessie Q.

#15. But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#16. Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What sustainability depends on isn't agri- so much as culture.

Raj Patel

#17. The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

Raj Patel

#18. It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.

Barbara Holland

#19. The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

Noam Chomsky

#20. I have a great set of executive producers helping me out. I have a great cast and crew. AMC has been fantastic. I'd say it's everything I was doing before, just eighteen other jobs. I love it.

Scott M. Gimple

#21. Today I will run for pure, absolute joy!

Lopez Lomong

#22. A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.

Raj Patel

#23. Some people thought Theophilus was a fake name. Whatever.

Theophilus London