"What is left of the poor? Try..." - Quote by Anthony Bourdain
What is left of the poor? Try to buy a fresh f**king vegetable in West Baltimore. It is a not completely inconceivable scenario in the future, we'll all look like that... Waddling from convenience store to fast food outlet, chewing mindlessly on 99 cent hamburgers.
More by Anthony Bourdain
“As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.”
“I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.”
“Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: Is it good? Does it give pleasure?”
More on Society
“We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.”
“They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.”
“One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.”
More on Poverty
“Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.”
“People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.”
“I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.”