#starvation

She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she’d thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130) ↗

— Ron Rash

#interraction #loneliness #speach #starvation #words

If you’re hungry, eat one of my new starvation pills. They taste like silence.
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#food #hunger #hungry #silence #silent

I want to end global hunger by feeding half the world’s starving people to the other half. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#global-hunger #humor #starvation #funny

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation. ↗

— John Piper

#compassion #evangelism #giving #gospel #greed

No, we love war. War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment. “It's the mark of a very, very young soul,” Mr. Whittier used to say, “to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.” We have always loved war. We are born knowing that war is why we're here. And we love disease. Cancer. We love earthquakes. In this amusement-park fun house we call the planet earth, Mr. Whittier says we adore forest fires. Oil spills. Serial killers. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#plague #starvation #war #love

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#bear #dictate #direction #him #his

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished. ↗

— Herta Müller

#death-and-dying #gulag #hunger #starvation #will-to-live

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#democracies #dictatorships #hate #i #place

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

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#authorities #been #beggars #camp #constantly