Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
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
Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions.… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Famines were frequent in colonial India and some estimates indicate that 30 to 40 million died out of starvation in Tamil Nadu,… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
When you go further and further into starvation you chose yourself, your mind becomes totally obsessed with not eating. It's like a… — Lena Andersson Copy Share Image
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
“The stinting poverty in which they lived was unbearable; it was destroying them. It did not mean that there was not enough… — Doris Lessing 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
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
“North Korea is a famine state. In the fields, you can see people picking up loose grains of rice and kernels of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
“No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I escaped his… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Ensnared in his starvation, Chaplin-man is always just below political awareness. A strike is a catastrophe for him because it threatens a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“If energy stays out for more than two weeks, most infants under age one will die of starvation because of their need… — James Barrat 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
“It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benefits… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Ever since setting foot in North Korea more than thirty years before, I’d known nothing but hunger. Everyone had been halfway to… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
You have to abolish pension plans. You have to abolish social spending. You have to raise taxes. You have to have at… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
It appeared that most of the men and boys had died of starvation; they had not been executed. But the manner of… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If you believe God loves… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
