George Orwell Quotes

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Bread did not have its usual nourishing power and strength because the grain was not nourished by the warmth of summer sunshine. Hence those who ate it, even in large quantities, were hungry again after a little while. There can be no doubt that the poor wasted away when even the rich were constantly hungry.... Four pennies worth of coarse bread was not enough to feed a common man for one day. The usual kinds of meat, suitable for eating, were too scarce; horse meat was precious; plump dogs were stolen. And, according to many reports, men and women in many places secretly ate their own children....

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this. You say: Wait, not this. And then it sucks you under and you drown.

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

I left home because I was hungry.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

They that die by famine die by inches.