Quote

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

Pearl S. Buck

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Missionary
Novelist
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
Food
Ethics
Rather
Principle
Become
Hunger
Matter
Daily
Men
Slave
People
Matters
Starve
Concern
Ethic
Principles
Assured

More quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Image
The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
We must have hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?
Pearl S. Buck
Image
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
Pearl S. Buck
Image
A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck