Quotes About Privation

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

All general privations are great, because they are all terrible; vacuity, darkness, solitude, and silence .

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.

Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips.

The book from which you take your teaching, Dr. Halse, says that man shall not live by bread alone. These days you're asking men to live without even bread.

you have nothing

You mustn't get me used to too many luxuries. One doesn't miss what one has never had; but it's awfully hard going without things after one has commenced thinking they are his.

Quienes hablan de la riqueza espiritual de los ascetas merecerían sufrir anorexia. No hay mejor escuela de materialismo puro y duro que el ayuno prolongado. Más allá de determinado límite, lo que entendemos por alma se marchita hasta desaparecer. (...) Sería un erro ver en la anorexia una inteligencia propia. Sería bueno que esa evidencia fuera finalmente asumida: la ascesis no enriquece el espíritu. Las privaciones carecen de virtud.

In North Korea I thought a frozen potato was the fanciest food in the world.

Troppo miseria

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

Was I lazy? Had I not applied for situations, attended lectures, written articles, and worked day and night like a man possessed? Had I not lived like a miser, eaten bread and milk when I had plenty, bread alone when I had little, and starved when I had nothing? Did I live in an hotel? Had I a suite of rooms on the first floor?

It was like wanting ice cream instead of meat loaf, and being told that children in refugee camps would be grateful for the meat loaf. Yes, of course she had nothing to complain about, compared to so many people, but when had that ever stopped anyone from complaining? Happiness was a balloon that always hovered just out of arm's reach.

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy

From that blighted time came the saying: when bellies speak, reason is lost. There

There are people, moreover, for whom even the absence of God is absent, who are shaken not by the privation of providence but by the privation of the privation, who live in a completely ungoverned and unconsoling world. To use the terms of another religious existentialist of Judaism against him: there is a man who is lonelier than the lonely man of faith, and he is the lonely man of no faith.

I have so very much. I have so very little.

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

There was no damned romance in our poverty.

living with his aunt and uncle in Pripyat, Yuri can scarcely believe how well they eat. And how full he feels after every meal—uncomfortably so. When he first arrived