Quotes about Starvation

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She’s a lean vixen: I can seethe ribs, the slytrickster’s eyes, filled with longing and desperation, the skinnyfeet, ade — Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House
Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one. — M.F. Moonzajer
Food’s the killer. The clock starts as soon as the troops are on the ground. You wouldn’t believe how fast they consume — Henry V. O'Neil, Orphan Brigade
Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food. — Criss Jami, Killosophy
It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benefits than the freedom — Steven Magee
One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have — Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics
I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or — Tony Campolo
My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starva — Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
Everyone was always hungry. The poorer you were, the hungrier you were, and with the hunger came weakness and irritabili — Elliot Perlman, The Street Sweeper
Never judge the deeds of a starving man while you’re on a full tummy. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the unders — Anna Reid, Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effe — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After tw — Virchand Gandhi, The Monist
I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them. — Anthony Liccione
Some of the things that beat the shit out of you . . . can beat the bullshit out of you too. — Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main
The lucky ones died in the blasts. They were spared the fate of starvation, cannibalism, rape and slaughter. Where a man — Joe Reyes, Aftermath
You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana