(40 quotes found)
“The evacuation of New Orleans doomed these animals to a fate of dehydration and starvation. We rescued people, but we left their pets behind to die. Amazingly, we are finding more alive every day, but after three weeks we are hitting the critical hour.”
Wayne Pacelle
“I saw everything from starvation and neglect to where dogs were chained to trees and had arrows shot through them and even cats set on fire. During my investigations, more times than not children or women living in the home had also been abused.”
Susan McDonough
“We found one old black dog on a couch that was near starvation. Another dog died in the bedroom. We were all bawling and crying.”
Hilleary Bogley
“The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, farseeing be”
Herbert Spencer
“Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real ''horror vacuum.''”
August Strindberg
“Starvation is that government's weapon of choice liberally spiced with high-altitude bombing, mass murder and even selling Sudanese boys and girls as slaves,”
Frank Wolf
“Look out to the world, and admire all its faults; We are responsible.”
Enrique Vega
“It is also 10 percent of your population without food and facing starvation -- that is going to challenge any economy.”
Douglas Keatinge
“They didn't provide food or water. I lived in starvation because my family could not visit me and provide food. The world should press ahead with a resolution on Burma.”
Bo Kyi
“Animals can die of starvation. There are maggots coming out of them. People are shooting them, putting knives in their throats, doing horrific things and these past few years nobody has really been doing anything.”
Jessie Miller