Quotes About Starvation

Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

The desire to live is a political decision. Who wants a world where the guarantee of freedom from starvation means the risk of death from boredom?

women who were widowed or made homeless joined the nearest army, offering their services more to avoid starvation than to further their political beliefs.

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for 'natural' methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

Wild animals almost never die of old age: starvation, disease, or predators catch up with them long before they become really senile. Until recently this was true of man too. Most animals die in childhood, many never get beyond the egg stage. Starvation and other causes of death are the ultimate reasons why populations cannot increase indefinitely.

Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods express a preference for 'natural' methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

And all the time he knew it was his hunger eating him.

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.

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

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

Honesty is admired, and starves.

I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.

The obvious thing is to think about what we could remove from our diet. But I took a completely opposite approach and began asking: What could we be adding to our diet that could boost the body's defense system? In other words, can we eat to starve cancer?

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

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

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

We all bear traces of the starvation struggle which for so long made up the life of the race.

I plan to starve you into submission,' he growled, nuzzling her breast.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.