Rations Quotes

16 quotes by 14 authors

All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make… — George Orwell
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement… — P.J. O'Rourke
It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's… — Alexis de Tocqueville
We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large… — Susan Sontag
I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and… — Judi Dench
Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions. — Patrick MacGill
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the… — Dennis Green
Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other… — Joshua
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline… — Margaret Halsey
Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint. — Susan Orlean
Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot… — Elie Wiesel
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. — George Orwell
Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed… — Rick Riordan
We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed by the fretful… — John Wesley Powell

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