The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

I felt all the wretcheder for the lack of a breakfast. Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

People in the farming community understand how he must feel. Bad enough to have killed a man, without helping the Party’s, the government’s, the country’s enemies, as well.

A hungry man is not a free man.

The worst of men is he who stops his contributions to charity, eats by himself, and whips his slave.

For a man will not have strength to fight his way forward all day
long until the sun goes down if he is starved for food.

Man is sick and nations have gone mad. You would not even tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.

In short order they fell into the same pit as their rivals, who had for decades ignored the plain and simple fact that to a starving man “freedom” implies a full rice-bowl—or, if he has an exceptional imagination, a healthy ox to pull his plough. It has nothing to do with voting for a political delegate.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

Without regard to his conscience, the economic system involves a man in the guilt of the moral and physical death of his brothers: their blood cries to him from the adulterated and monopolized foods he eats; from the sweat-shop clothes he wears; from his educational advantages, his special privileges, his social opportunities. ... In fine, civilization denies to man that highest of all rights — the right to live a guiltless life, the right to do right.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.