Quote by John Steinbeck

What do you think this very difficult situation will push? Especially in the hearts of those who are facing the starvation, facing the unemployment,…

— Yasser Arafat

“He who will not work shall not eat.' Yet, so strong is the propensity to be thought 'gentlemen;' so general is this desire amongst…

— William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Those who fight for food will die in hunger, those who fight for wealth will end up poor heated, only those who seek knowledge…

— Hamzat Haruna Ribah

“Such beings inhabit the valley of unrest between life and death. They devour the living in a vain attempt to sway the hunger, the…

— Shimako Sato

Some authoritarians and dictators intentionally use starvation as a tactic of war.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.

— Sam Shepard

“The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors.”

— Lao Tzu

“But the foolish children will have to learn some day that, rebels though they be and riotous from nature, they are too weak to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“an army of incompetents, poltroons, political cronies, and victims—always there are the victims whom the others send to slaughter in their stead—”

— John Jakes

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest…

— Thomas Carlyle

“even in their poverty they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned others to treat them with respect.”

— Thomas Sowell