Starvation Quotes

149 Starvation quotes by 132 unique authors

It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and… — Ronald J. Sider
From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a… — Loung Ung
I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation. — Tre Cool
It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and… — Arthur Eddington
Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this. You say: Wait,… — Marya Hornbacher
I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every… — Don McCullin
The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their… — Isabel Paterson
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty.… — Susette La Flesche
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

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