Starvation Quotes

149 Starvation quotes by 132 unique authors

We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body… — Karl Marlantes
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors. — Mark Twain
Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly… — Alaa Al Aswany
Starvation does not occur because of a world food shortage. If everyone ate a vegetarian, or better still, a vegan diet there would be enough… — Jeremy Rifkin
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. This situation so… — Charles Bukowski
And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation? — Haniel Long
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal,… — Barbara Tuchman
No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet. — Joe Calzaghe
Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses. — Mahatma Gandhi
Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People… — Jonathan Ross
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the… — Mikhail Bakunin
In a world threatened by a famine of righteousness and spiritual starvation, we have been commanded to sustain the prophet. As we give heed to,… — Carol F. McConkie
Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things. — Roger McGough
Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation? — Rosalind Russell
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 recognize that racial… — Aberjhani
The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of… — Ernst Toller
Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and… — Boris Johnson
The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye. — Henry Ward Beecher
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly… — Eric Hoffer
History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable. — James Nachtwey
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind,… — Criss Jami
A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the… — David A. Cooper
I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are… — John Steinbeck

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