Starvation Quotes
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This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation.
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What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.
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The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.
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Skinny women don't enjoy being told they're skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.
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Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.
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A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
