Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime. Oscar Wilde Crime, Hunger, Sin, Society You May Also Like When hunger gets inside you, nothing else can. By West African saying Hunger Absolute truth is incompatible with an advanced state of society. By Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Society, Truth You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. By David Floyd George Hunger, Statistics He who throws a bomb and kills a pedestrian, declares that as a victim of society he has rebelled against society. But could not the poor victim object: “Am I society?” By Enrico Malatesta Society, Terrorism If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. By John F. Kennedy Freedom, Poverty, Rich, Society Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. By Richard Whateley Adversity, Dinner, Funny, Hunger You May Also Like from Oscar Wilde I don’t want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine. By Oscar Wilde Bills, Freedom, Independent, Money Men always want to be a woman’s first love—women like to be a man’s last romance. By Oscar Wilde Love, Relationship, Romantic Nothing succeeds like excess. By Oscar Wilde Abstinence, Moderation Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. By Oscar Wilde Religion … when the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. By Oscar Wilde Prayer Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot. By Oscar Wilde Infidelity
Absolute truth is incompatible with an advanced state of society. By Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Society, Truth
He who throws a bomb and kills a pedestrian, declares that as a victim of society he has rebelled against society. But could not the poor victim object: “Am I society?” By Enrico Malatesta Society, Terrorism
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. By John F. Kennedy Freedom, Poverty, Rich, Society
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. By Richard Whateley Adversity, Dinner, Funny, Hunger
I don’t want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine. By Oscar Wilde Bills, Freedom, Independent, Money
Men always want to be a woman’s first love—women like to be a man’s last romance. By Oscar Wilde Love, Relationship, Romantic
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. By Oscar Wilde Religion
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot. By Oscar Wilde Infidelity
