One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods express a preference for "natural" methods of population limitation, and a natural… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
“In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land… — Walden Bello Copy Share Image
“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image