Quotes with starving

  • He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
  • But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Gloria Steinem America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Caroline Knapp Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Captain Beefheart But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
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  • Arthur Henderson He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Ann Druyan I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Robert E. Lee I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Allen Ginsberg I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aldous Huxley If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Mark Twain If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ronald Reagan It's difficult to believe that people are starving in this country because food isn't available.
    New conference, 11-06-1986
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ben Carson Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Bruce Barton When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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