Starvation – Quotes

The French got enough

The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage. Ernst Toller

If the workers see

If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting – and whether or not we leaders agree. Ernest Bevin

The poor on the

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

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of the people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to … Read more

If anyone had told

If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we’ll have to fight again we wouldn’t have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen … Read more

A writer who attempts

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. Edwin Percy Whipple

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live. Edward R. Murrow

It appeared that most

It appeared that most of the men and boys had died of starvation; they had not been executed. But the manner of death seemed unimportant. Murder had been done at Buchenwald. God alone knows how many men and boys have died there during the last twelve years. Edward R. Murrow

I have always tempered

I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s way … Read more

The peoples of many

The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage in a mad race in armament which, if permitted to continue, may well result in war. This grave menace to the peace of the world is due in no small measure to the … Read more