Starving Quotes - Page 17

• If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Thinking, Media, Important

  "Madonna's not our saviour" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Home, Dark

  Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving [than we do to ask Him].  As much as we want God to explain himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us.

  Francis Chan

  People, Giving, Demand

  6 Copy quote

• Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error. The idea of 'free contract' between the potentate and his starving subject is a sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar exploring the consequences of (in my view, absurd) ideas, but nowhere else.

  Noam Chomsky

  Errors, Views, Ideas

  "On Anarchism". Interview with Tom Lane, chomsky.info. December 23, 1996.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.

  R. C. Sproul

  Mother, Baby, Church

  48 Copy quote