Starvation Quotes

149 Starvation quotes by 132 unique authors

Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course. — Terry Pratchett
We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the… — David Mamet
When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation. — Cherrie Moraga
It is already too late to avoid mass starvation — Denis Hayes
I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of… — Mark Lynas
I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My… — Carre Otis
By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate… — Peter Singer
If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting â€” and whether or not… — Ernest Bevin
Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as… — Kofi Annan
For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live. — Edward R. Murrow
Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to… — Amartya Sen
There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be. — Walter Duranty
There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition. — Walter Duranty
Where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation — Leon Trotsky
Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny. — Jared Diamond
At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything in their path,… — Carolyn Hart
The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the… — William Ewart Napier
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects. — Laura Miller
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be… — August Strindberg

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