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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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• We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it. ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction.

  Julian Beck

  Pain, War, People

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• To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally, and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing

  Isaac Asimov

  Population, Needs, Anarchy

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

  Tom Morello

  Years, Hunger And Poverty, Numbers

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

  Walter Duranty

  Disease, Mortality, Malnutrition

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• A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.

  George Orwell

  War, Ignorance, Past

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• We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Law, Age

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 42, 1836.

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• It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Disease, Poverty, Steps

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• You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk on food? To know food only theoretically is to always remain hungry. You must eat to satisfy hunger. So he who seeks new doctrines continuously but does not put them into practice in his life is in continual spiritual starvation.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Practice, Differences

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• Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

  Oscar Wilde

  Parent, Sin, Hunger

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

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• Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.

  Peter Singer

  Stress, Animal, Order

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

  Walter Duranty

  Famine

  "1930s journalist Gareth Jones to have story retold" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2009.

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• There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names which make the problems sound like they’re taking place in a different world: they make people not care about other people dying of starvation by calling the place the dying live “the third world.

  Craig Stone

  Names, People, Evil

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• The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Hands, Order

  "Commemorating The 70th Anniversary Of Liberation", www.ushmm.org.

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• No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Men, Secret

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• Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders . . . . and millions have been killed because of this obedience . . . .

  Howard Zinn

  People, Leader, World

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• By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.

  John Berendt

  Suicide, Strong, Morning

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• A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Loung Ung

  Country, Two, Population

  Loung Ung (2010). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything in their path, but the loveliness of this moment was as real as wars and plagues and heartbreak. Pleasure and beauty are as valid as pain and ugliness and when I am fortunate enough to enjoy the former, I do so.

  Carolyn Hart

  Pain, Children, Real

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• Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

  Laura Miller

  Fire, Stories, Body

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Stress, Pet, Helping

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss tactic. I'd just been too busy bumping from crisis to crisis. Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.

  Charlaine Harris

  Girl, Running, Loss

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• The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.

  William Ewart Napier

  Moving, Eight, Dollars

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• Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans- or even other animals, including members of the same species- an individual's pain, suffering, and anxiety matter.

  Marc Bekoff

  Pain, Animal, Anxiety

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.67, Shambhala Publications

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