Edward R. Murrow Quotes

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

People may have to die in the country and die through starvation.

Whole families used to starve in their cabins without their plight being discovered until the stench of their decaying corpses attracted notice.

Hunger is the most influential disease.

I knew when I left school, my stomach would probably hurt from having nothing to eat, and I would be going back to those same circumstances that were breaking me.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the next life.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.

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

Want is misery.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

I don't care if I starve.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

Despair often breeds disease.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.