Desperate People Quotes

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.

Italians are a riffraff of desperate scoundrels, ex-convicts and jailbirds.

Sanctions and workfare make it easier for employers to impose insecure practices on desperate people.

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.

Countries around the world have their own immigration laws and methods of dealing with a recurring theme: desperate people searching for peace from volatile parts of the world. And nations everywhere thrive and prosper from the contributions of immigrants and the children of immigrants - including right here in the U.S.

In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

The political solutions to the refugee crisis may be complex, but that does not mean we should abandon our humanity. We should not close our hearts, retreat behind walls, real or imagined, or ignore the pressing moral imperative to provide assistance and sanctuary for some of the world's most desperate people.

We pursued many actions against foreclosure rescue scammers who were reaching into the pockets of desperate people in an effort to steal what little remained as they sought to keep their homes.

People are desperate for these breathier, longer, more in-depth conversations. And the only thing I can't provide in my show is the longer time.