Starvation Quotes

149 Starvation quotes by 132 unique authors

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? — Raoul Vaneigem
The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of… — Henry B. Eyring
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty… — George Orwell
Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat. — Joyce Carol Oates
I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to… — Charles Bukowski
The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I… — Frank McCourt
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of… — Howard Zinn
By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die,… — John Berendt
A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But… — C.S. Lewis
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget,… — Abraham Verghese
To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about. — George Orwell
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget,… — Abraham Verghese
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not… — Leon Trotsky
He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here. "To you, it'd… — Richelle Mead
We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared… — Patti Smith
Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or… — Marc Bekoff
Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss… — Charlaine Harris
The term â€œstarvation dietâ€ refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word… — Marya Hornbacher
Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very… — Alexandre Dumas

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