Starvation Quotes

Starvation Quote of the day

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Death by starvation is slow.

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting - and whether or not we leaders agree.

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.

There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

The United Nations Childrens Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for the sufferings of others.

Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.

It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on.

If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd be better off turning the barley into beer and letting the pig starve.