Top 259 Starvation Quotes & Sayings

I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

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

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.

Those who don't feed themselves with food of hope will eventually die of mental starvation

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

Whenever I'm on my way to a premiere or something, I always have a good laugh in the car... because it's all so absurd - I'm one generation removed from starvation.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

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

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

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.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

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

Some bloke said to me in a restaurant whilst I was eating my dinner, 'No, stop. Starvation suits you.'

We could easily be facing starvation in the U.K. if the weather effect continues as it is. We need to be building resilience in our communities.

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

Nobody ever came to America with a starry-eyed dream of working for starvation wages.

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.

Death by starvation is slow.

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

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

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

Thou art hunger, yo. Make with the starvation.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

More organizations die of indigestion than starvation

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

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

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this. You say: Wait, not this. And then it sucks you under and you drown.

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.

Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.

In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.

If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.

The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.

I have visited slums in Mumbai, I have visited slums in other countries, but nothing is like North Korea because North Korean starvation, it's a systematic starvation by a country that chose to starve us.

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".

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.

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.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

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.

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

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

I was on a starvation diet to look like I was near death in a film... but I went at it with a plan, and I had a guide; a nutritionist kind of helped me with it.

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

No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.