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

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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

  Rosalind Russell

  Beauty, Deprivation, Sensory Deprivation

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

  Haniel Long

  Kingdoms

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• When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms. And we feed it to livestock. So we can eat a steak? Am I the only one who sees this as a crime? Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent? The Earth can produce enough for everyone’s need. But not enough for everyone’s greed.

  Philip Wollen

  Country, Children, Food

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

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Love, Indigestion, Dies

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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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• Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Justice, Hatred

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• It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Christian, Brother, Years

  Ronald J. Sider (2015). “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.

  Walden Bello

  Children, Hunger And Poverty, Land

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• Starvation does not occur because of a world food shortage. If everyone ate a vegetarian, or better still, a vegan diet there would be enough food for everyone. The only sane way forward is to grow food for humans rather than to feed it to farmed animals.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Animal, Way Forward, Doe

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