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.

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.

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

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Hunger makes thief of any man.

A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

A hungry man is not a free man.

...man...is a frail, lost creature, too weak to walk unaided.

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

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

He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear

The man afflicted by hunger for power or money for its own sake is just that: afflicted. He is tormented by incessant desires for more without cause. He is the most likely to wear a social mask to succeed, and thus he is always unsure of himself and his life, the deep tear inside always causing him to obsess about how to get more, why he doesn't have it already, and whom he will have to please or become in order to get it.