Extreme Need Quotes

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

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

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

The beggarly last doit.

Knowledge and German destiny must come to power above all in the adherence to tradition, and will do so only when teachers and students alike suspend knowledge as their innermost need, and participate in the destiny of Germany in its most extreme need.

I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!