“ Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature. Carlo Petrini Journalist
“ Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad. Carlo Petrini Journalist
“ The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste. Carlo Petrini Journalist
“ Information has become king, whereas wisdom should be king and there is a big difference between the two. Jon Foreman Singer
“ When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children. Mary Catherine Bateson Writer
“ We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength. Jimmy Carter 39th U.S. President
“ Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. R. H. Tawney Professor
“ I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great. Aaron Sorkin Screenwriter
“ [T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness. Alain De Botton Writer