Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“Only a starving man asks bread from a begger”

— George R.R. Martin

“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The world is stuffed full of peasants.”

— Shirley Coleman

“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

“He was surprised to discover that when rich people were starving they looked so much like the poor”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Starving men should never pretend to enjoy a crust of bread.”

— Ryan Bigge

“but pauperization cut into the spending power of all but the elite. Demand from great lords for luxury goods remained high, but many gentlemen…

— Robert Steven Gottfried

“If we were designed by engineers, as we consumed more, we'd desire less. But our frequent human tragedy is that the more we consume,…

— Robert Sapolsky

“The hardworking poor should receive wages and bread.”

— Rüdiger Safranski

“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either…

— Samuel Johnson

“In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate…

— Oscar Wilde