Starvation Quotes
149 Starvation quotes by 132 unique authors
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Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
— Raoul Vaneigem
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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
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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
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Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.
— George Orwell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The term “starvation diet†refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word…
— Marya Hornbacher
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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
Who Wrote These Starvation Quotes
132 authors contributed a total of 149 Starvation Quotes, led by these top contributors: