Doctor Faustus Quote by Christopher Marlowe

“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.”

— André Gide

“What horrifying torture this poor man must have endured. Out of a wise man they have made a miserable bundle of flesh and bones.”

— Rafik Schami

“Life is a banquet and most poor bastards are starving to death!”

— Patrick Dennis

“As a rich man sees no reason for rejoicing in a meager gift of bread until a turn of events leaves him impoverished, so…

— Paul Washer

“No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty—to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“I felt all the wretcheder for the lack of a breakfast. Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.”

— H.G. Wells

“It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defenselessness, destitution. A squalid bargain: human…

— Victor Hugo

“He tried to make his lust comical, to show how absurd it all was, easily the most wretched form of human struggle, the very…

— Saul Bellow

“if you desire within your heart, riches, to help the hungry, the unclothed, the sick, the afflicted, the imprisoned, you will receive beyond measure,…

— TJR Senior

“As a hungry man makes haste and takes large morsels on account of his great hunger so your servant feels a great desire to…

— Raymond Lulle

“They looked at me and asked me to be merciful; they did not command, they begged ... asking for the pity that lay dormant…

— Baroness Orczy

“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one…

— Augustine of Hippo