Starvation Quotes

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”

“To avoid starvation is the only excuse for working.”

“Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.”

“People are dying of starvation and famine.And you have a MASSERATTI!”

“With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind.”

“High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.”

“Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and against the starvation. We survived because we trusted one another.”

“My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.”

“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!”