Hunger Quote by Tom Reiss

“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the…

— Upton Sinclair

“What, in all the world , could I do to earn my living and still live as myself, as I knew myself to be.…

— Janet Frame

It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces…

— Nadine Gordimer

“[Describing the soap in the gulag] It smelt as if some sacred physical law had been demeaned in its creation.”

— Martin Amis

“Those masks we wear not to shield others; but ourselves from who we are.”

— Basith

“This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a manner as…

— Frederick Douglass

“Damaged people wear masks. They're like the burglars who wear them while robbing banks. It's just that they wear a mask of smile, rob…

— Sameer Khan

“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted…

— Criss Jami

“Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so.”

— David Baldacci

“Who wears masks?’ ‘Bank robbers?’ ‘No.’ ‘Really ugly people?’ ‘No.’ ‘Halloween? People wear masks at Halloween.’ ‘Yes! They do!’ He flung his arms wide…

— Neil Gaiman

“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn finer…

— N.K. Jemisin

“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