Thomas Huxley Quotes

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime.

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

We hate our squalor.

I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

How miserable that man is that Governes a People where six parts of seven at least are Poor, Endebted Discontented and Armed.

As London is the greatest of all cities, there is naturally the greatest amount of human wretchedness to be seen concentrated within it; wretchedness too, that is made to look still more wretched, simply from the fact of its being associated with the most abundant comfort in the world.

The awful phantom of the hungry poor.

… the unhappy Peasant cannot survive in his humble shelter; today pigswill is his only nourishment; what was once lavished on swine is now shared between man and beast. The People ask only for bread; they are even willing to pay for it with the sweat of their brows: at least let them eat it without watering it with tears.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!