Abandoned Quote by Martha Gellhorn

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

— Connie Sellecca

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might…

— Upton Sinclair

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“They went on living in poverty, though they were no longer in need, but they were set in their ways, and they looked on…

— Albert Camus

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

— James Joyce

“They ruined their environment, and their civilization collapsed. You'd think their descendants would have learned not to kill the earth that feeds them, but…

— Nancy Farmer

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

— John Steinbeck

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing…

— Bible

“250,000 men and women who worked in the mills are history. Some died, some became disillusioned, others simply lost their minds. Many committed suicide,…

— Hussain Zaidi

The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty…

— Bartolome de las Casas

“From all over the planet they came…. They came in companies and alone, with money and without, knowing and naïve. They tore themselves from…

— H.W. Brands

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

— Terry Pratchett