That, it appeared, was the High Toryism of Tietjens as it was the extreme Radicalism of the extreme Left of the Left.

And over their port they agreed on two fundamental legislative ideals: every working man to have a minimum of four hundred a year and every beastly manufacturer who wanted to pay less to be hung. That, it appeared, was the High Toryism of Tietjens as it was the extreme Radicalism of the extreme Left of the Left.

F.M. Ford, Some do not...(1924)  [Parade's End], 84

As a political matter, is home cooking today a reactionary or progressive way to spend one's time?

Is cooking a form of oppression, as many feminists argued (with some justification, I might add) in the 1960s? Back in the 1970s, KFC ran billboards depicting a family-sized bucket of fried chicken under the slogan "Women's Liberation." And so perhaps it was, and still is for many women even now... As a political matter, is home cooking today a reactionary or progressive way to spend one's time?

M. Pollan, Cooked (2013),131-2

The way I do it, it is definitely reactionary.

Given the choice, many animals will opt for cooked food over raw

Given the choice, many animals will opt for cooked food over raw. This shouldn't surprise us: "coked food is better than raw," Wragham says, "because life is mostly concerned with energy" - and cooked food yields more energy. 

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Ninety percent of a cooked egg is digested,whereas only 65 percent of a raw egg is; by the same token, the rarer the steak, or the more al dente the pasta, the less of it will be absorbed. Dieters take note.

M. Pollan, Cooked (2013), 61 (and footnote)

I blame the radio for sowing a good deal of confusion where theology is concerned

Two or three of the ladies had pronounced views on points of doctrine, particularly sin and damnation. I blame the radio for sowing a good deal of confusion where theology is concerned. And television is worse. you can spend forty years teaching people to be awake to the fact of mystery and then some fellow with no more theological sense than a jackrabbit gets himself a radio ministry and all your work is forgotten.

M. Robinson, Gilead (2004), 237

In eternity this world will be Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets

I know this is all mere apparition compared to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a human beauty in it. And I can't believe that, when we have all been changed and put on incorruptibility, we will forget our fantastic condition of mortality and impermanence, the great bright dream of procreating and perishing that meant the whole world to us. In eternity this world will be Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets. Because I don't imagine any reality putting this one to shade entirely, and I think piety forbids me to try.  

M. Robinson, Gilead (2004), 65

Feuerbach is a famous atheist, but he is about as good on the joyful aspects of religion as anybody

Feuerbach is a famous atheist, but he is about as good on the joyful aspects of religion as anybody, and he loves the world. Of course he thinks religion could just stand out of the way and let joy exist pure and undisguised. That is his one error, and it is significant. But he is marvelous on the subject of joy, an also on its religious expressions.

Broughton takes a very dim view of him, because he unsettled the faith of so many people, but I take issue as much with those people as with Feuerbach. It seems to me people just go around looking to get their faith unsettled.

M. Robinson, Gilead (2004), 27