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A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor
is bent by any prayers.
[Lat., read more
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor
is bent by any prayers.
[Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla
prece flectitur, populus esuriens.]
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that read more
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
They that die by famine die by inches.
They that die by famine die by inches.
Oliver Twist has asked for more.
Oliver Twist has asked for more.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how read more
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
