Starvation Quotes

149 quotes by 134 authors

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films… — Theodore Bikel
The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot… — Conrad Black
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic… — Aberjhani
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946,… — Daniel Berrigan
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. — Lewis Mumford
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that… — George Bernard Shaw
It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death. — Ban Ki-moon
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary. — Oscar Wilde
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the… — Rajneesh
No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that… — Jules Verne
I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living… — Fred Bear
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been… — Anna Sewell
...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way… — J M Coetzee
To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need… — Isaac Asimov
When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he… — J. Frank Dobie
The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation... to enable governments to engage in a mad race in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much… — Marshall Sahlins
Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate. — Michael Redhill
All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in… — Obafemi Awolowo
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons… — Thomas Szasz

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