Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy, nutrient, and vitamin intake. It is the most extreme form of malnutrition. The term inanition refers to the symptoms and effects of starvation. According to the World Health Organization, hunger is the single gravest threat to the world's :public health. The WHO also states that malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to child mortality, present in half of all cases.
- See also: hunger
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- The mighty peril is the entire starvation of the country [India] by foreign exploiters and its complete and hopeless dependence on aliens for almost all articles of common use.
- Sri Aurobindo, in Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1 January 1993), p. 263
- My whole life has been a struggle with hard realities, from hardships, starvation in England and constant and fierce difficulties to the far greater difficulties continually cropping up here in Pondicherry, external and internal.
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- You see somewhere a man who is starving and if you misunderstand karma — as too many of you do, to the shame of India, in a land where this teaching is of immemorial antiquity — you turn aside from that starving man and say that it is his karma to starve and perish; in those hardened heart of yours you use the will of God as a cover for your lack of love. That man’s karma to starve? Aye, and therefore he is starving! But if a Deva guides you to the place where your brother is starving, it is because he would make you the agent of his beneficence to that man whose evil karma of the present moment has been exhausted by his suffering; the Deva thus says to you: “Man your brother man is starving give him the relief it is his karma to receive, and be my agent in carrying out the law.
- Annie Besant, in The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant, (Google eBook) (2012), p. 475
- Who can count the hundreds and thousands driven out from home, the broken families, the miseries, the poverty, and starvation intolerable, which marked the expulsion of the Jews and the Moors from Spain.
- By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
- I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.
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- It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
- Jim Carrey, in The Authentic You, (26 November 2013), p. 69
- Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
- Criss Jami, in Killosophy, (8 January 2015), p. 103
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- Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.- Emily Dickinson, in The Poems of Emily Dickinson, (1999), p. 572
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- A child could see that Heavenly Father would not command men and women to marry and to multiply and replenish the earth if the children they invited into mortality would deplete the earth. Since there is enough and to spare, the enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children.
- We can pray for world peace; we can pray to end world hunger and feed the starving children; we can pray to end genocide; we can pray for things to work out or whatever we desperately want or desire. Unless we take the initiative to make it chances are our prayers will not be answered. If we don’t stop the aggressive nations, terrorists, and gangs that attack innocent people, then there won’t be peace in the world. The poor, the weak, and the innocent will go hungry for another decade or longer. If we don’t deliver food to the starving children, they will not have anything to eat and they will starve to death. This is truth and god is truth! Those who create the turbulent environment are evil; they must be dealt with before evil deals with us.
- Emil Ezegner, in Distractive Politics, (1 Janyary 2010), p. 51
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- I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick, in Dumbass, (1 January 2006), p. 121
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- To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse than starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
- Mahatma Gandhi, in Mahatma Gandhi: an apostle of applied human ecology, (1 January 2002), p. 51
- Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.
- Martha Gellhorn, in Collier's, Volume 115, p. 156
- The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, in The Doomsday Lobby: Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding ..., (11 September 2010), p. 70
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- It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword.
- Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
- O. Henry, in Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated), (17 November 2013), p. 622
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- I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
- When the average American says, “I’m starving,” it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant.
- Carolyn Custis James, in Choir News Byron Presbyterian Church
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- —O, tranquil earth and heaven—but their repose,
What influence hath it on the mourner there !
Her eye is fix’d in terrible despair,
Her lip is white with pain, and, spectre-like,
Her shape is worn with famine—on her arm
Rests a dead child—she does not weep for it.
Two more are at her side, she’d weep for them,
But that she is too desperate to weep:- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835 (1834), 'Scene in Bundelkhund'
- I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
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- I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
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- Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
- Debout, les damnés de la terre
Debout, les forçats de la faim
La raison tonne en son cratère
C'est l'éruption de la fin- Stand up, damned of the Earth
Stand up, prisoners of starvation
Reason thunders in its volcano
This is the eruption of the end. - Eugène Edine Pottier, The Internationale (1864)
- Stand up, damned of the Earth
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- It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
- Ronald Reagan, in Quotes by Reagan Ronald, p. 3
- Judas: Woman, your fine ointment, brand new and expensive
Could have been saved for the poor
Why has it been wasted? We could have raised maybe
Three hundred silver pieces or more
People who are hungry, people who are starving
Matter more than your feet and hair.
- Tim Rice Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)
- Naturalists and egalitarians don’t believe the rosy predictions about how genetically enhanced food will end famine. Starving people are hungry not because of high population density but inequality in food distribution… Similarly geni-modified food is neither the best nor the only way to feed starving people.
- Peter Rosett, in “World Hunger:Tweleve Myths” in Designer Food: Mutant Harvest Or Breadbasket of the World?, (2002), quoted by Gregory E. Pence, p. 149
- Too many people are too poor to buy the food that is available or lack land on which to grow it themselves. The real enemy is the international conglomerates that want to profit by feeding the hungry and selling them genetically modified (GM) food.
- Peter Rosett, in “Designer Food: Mutant Harvest Or Breadbasket of the World? (2002), quoted by Gregory E. Pence”, p. 149
- But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Risk: Decision Matrix - Strategies That Win, (6 January 2009), p. 71
- All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
- Bertrand Russell, in Parecon: Life After Capitalism, (2004), p. 43
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- One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.
- Marshall Sahlins, in Stone Age Economics, (03 April 2013), p. 38
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- Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
- The king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starving.
Why did you and your folk three times try to attack my people at their merrymaking? asked the king.
"We did not attack them," answered Thorin, "we came to beg because we were starving."
"Where are your friends now, and what are they doing?"
"I don't know, but I expect that they're all starving in the forest."
"What were you doing in the forest?"
"Looking for food and drink, because we were starving."
"And what brought you into the forest at all?" asked the king angrily.
At that Thorin shut his mouth and would not say another word.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, in The Hobbit, (19 April 2014), p. 77
- Over the twenty-one-day duration of the fast, Gandhi dropped from 109 pounds to 91 pounds – a 16.5 percent weight loss - or slightly smaller percentage than the men of the starvation experiment would lose in their first three months.
- Todd Tucker, when Gandhi went on fast from 10 February to 3 March 1943, while he was incarcerated for political activism for liberation of India from British rule, in, The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science, (2007), pp.117-18
- With Gandhi starving in jail, legions of Indians fighting for Hitler, and rampant starvation in Bengal, it was near anarchy in India, and no one knew what would happen next.
- Todd Tucker, in "The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science (2007)", p. 118
- The volunteers of the starvation experiment would have been familiar with Christianity’s extensive ties to fasting. Fasting in the Old Testament occurred frequently, and for a variety of reasons.
- Todd Tucker, in "The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science (2007)", p. 120
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- Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
- Raoul Vaneigem, in Heraclitus in Sacramento, (1 May 2006), p. 8
- As a matter of fact spiritualism cannot progress amidst poverty and starvation. Religion and spiritualism are meaningless to a man who cries out for a piece of bread with a parched throat. It is an insult to a starving man to teach him metaphysics.
- Swami Vivekananda, in Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India, (1 January 2003), p. 69
- With the sense of possession comes selfishness and under its influence man never thinks for common good, that clears the path for starvation of others.
- Swami Vivekananda, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 69
- ...in the name of civilizing our country [India] they exploited our country making us poorer day by day. There were perpetual famine and starvation in India. But the British had always been callous to it.
- Swami Vivekananda, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 185
- Culturally it was a time of stagnation. Poverty and starvation were the common phenomenon in the society. The imperial power invested huge capital in India and made enormous profit. The British looked upon India as a place where capital could hope to maintain a heaven. But paradoxically enough, the Indian masses were rotting in poverty and starvation. Thus a great predicament, surrounded India in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Swami Vivekananda, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", pp. 205-06
- They have sucked out blood, they have carried away with them millions of our money, while our people have starved.
- Swami Vivekananda, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 291
- Twenty years from 1860-1908 were the years of famine. Nearly 29 million people died during famines from 1854-1901. These famines revealed that poverty and chronic starvation had taken firm roots in colonial India.
- Swami Vivekananda, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 291
- ...amidst wretchedness, poverty and starvation it is too difficult to preach Advaitism and realize the grand dream of Universal Unity...poor must be given bread first and then religion.
- Swami Vivekananda, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 353
- ...the imperialistic drain of wealth from the backward parts of the globe and its piling up in capitalistic areas of the West that causes poverty and starvation in one part and plentitude in another part of the world.
- Swami Vivekananda, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 353
- I was dying of starvation, barefooted I went from office to office and was refused everywhere. I learnt by experience what human compassion is. This was my first contact with realities of life; and I discovered it...had no room for the weak, the poor, the deserted.
- Swami Vivekananda, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 7
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- It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.
- T.H. White, in The Once and Future King, (17 April 2014), p. 84
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- People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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- Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón]], in The Shadow of the Wind, (25 January 2005), p. 68
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