(40 quotes found)
“One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny”
Bertrand Russell
“Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary”
Oscar Wilde
“Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion”
Ninon de Lenclos
“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”
“Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime”
“Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.”
Terry Pratchett
“450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If you believe God loves little children - and hundreds of thousands more Iraqi children will die if there is war - you have to believe that God will judge us very harshly for this.”
Jane Elliot
“Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?”
Raoul Vaneigem
“After a cold night, a bird can be on the verge of starvation. They need food.”
David Mann
“And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?”
Haniel Long
