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starvation Quotes

Eight of the best book quotes about starvation
01
“If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more.”
02
“Moral compasses meant nothing in the face of starvation.”
03
″...if I die tonight I’m in a state of sin for stealing and I could go straight to hell stuffed with fish and chips but it’s Saturday and if the priests are still in the confession boxes I can clear my soul after my feed.”
04
Their sacrifices in the beginning, their three hundred dollars that they had scraped together, all they owned in the world, all that stood between them and starvation!
Source: Chapter 18, Line 50
05
“Hangin’ on the verge of starvation,′ I says—‘for the honor of the family—hic—sen’ me some bread.”
Source: Chapter 24, Line 25
06
“Why, sir, I’ve been so hungry that I have been glad to take the bones they threw to their dogs;”
Source: Chapter 11, Paragraph 73
07
“The slave-owner can whip his refractory slave to death,—the capitalist can starve him to death.”
Source: Chapter 19, Paragraph 84
08
“As to family security, it is hard to say which is the worst,—to have one’s children sold, or see them starve to death at home.”
Source: Chapter 19, Paragraph 84
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