Starvation Quotes

• One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

  Bertrand Russell

  Respect, Humor, Public Opinion

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

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• 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.

  David Ogilvy

  Country, Years, Evil

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

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Blessing, Guarantees That, Boredom

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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• Death by starvation is slow.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.35, Rutgers University Press

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• By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

  Theodore Bikel

  Memories, Soul, Battle

  "Citizen-Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways Every American Can Fight Terrorism". Book by Michael Mandaville, 2009.

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

  James Nachtwey

  Animal, Mass Destruction, People

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

  Lewis Mumford

  Peace, War, Misery

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

  Amartya Sen

  People, Enough, Characteristics

  Amartya Sen (1981). “Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Suffering Of Others, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Loneliness, Realizing, Hungry

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “Faithless: Tales of Transgression”, p.36, Harper Collins

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Selfish, Giving

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• Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

  Rosalind Russell

  Beauty, Deprivation, Sensory Deprivation

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• Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Love, Indigestion, Dies

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• 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.

  Jonathan Ross

  Dog, People, Shapes

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

  Haniel Long

  Kingdoms

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• No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

  Jules Verne

  Compassion, Suffering, Hunger

  Jules Verne (2013). “Jules Verne Selected Works: 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Mysterious Island”, p.640, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and war to lack of clean air and water, not to mention all the varied forms of human emotional and spiritual suffering.

  Sharon Gannon

  Spiritual, War, Animal

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• 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

  Eric Hoffer

  Struggle, Shelter, Poverty

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Essence, Agony

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• 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.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Work, Real, Bears

  "The Doomsday Lobby: Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding Meteors". Book by James T. Bennett, p. 70, September 11, 2010.

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• 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.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Animal, People, Poverty

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

  Naveen Jain

  Opportunity, Focus, Entrepreneur

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2017

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• 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.

  Foster Friess

  Children, War, Parent

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