#starving

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#body #deny #deprive #him #his

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political. ↗

— Judith Light

#enough #food #makes #me #people

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#available #because #believe #country #difficult

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people. ↗

— Peter Singer

#end #feed #gone #grain #our

How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control. ↗

— Steven Levenkron

#eat #eating #eating-disorder #starve #starving

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#belly #bloated #body #child #filled

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.' ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#daughters #dinner #finish #growing #growing up

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#destroyed #generation #hysterical #i #madness

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. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#attitude #blinders #choose #citizens #civil

She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#starving-artist #suffering #writing #writing-process #life