George Orwell quotes about hunger & poverty

Thou shalt not lose thy job.

…it's the things that happen inside you that matter.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.

Poverty is what I am writing about, and I had my first contact with poverty in this slum.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

It is altogether curious, your first contact with poverty.

…you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future.

It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out.

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work.

I shall never again think that all tramps are drunken scoundrels, nor expect a beggar to be grateful when I give him a penny, nor be surprised if men out of work lack energy.

It isn't a coin, it's the answer to a riddle.

The first effect of poverty is that it kills thought.

It is in the brain and the soul that lack of money damages you.

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

Charity kills friendship.

He is a sort of caryatid upon whose shoulders nearly everything that is not grimy is supported.

At those times the place is like hell, or at any rate like my own mental picture of hell.

You can never forget that spectacle once you have seen it—the line of bowed, kneeling figures, sooty black all over, driving their huge shovels under the coal with stupendous force and speed.

For it is brought home to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

It is a kind of duty to see and smell such places now and again, especially smell them, lest you should forget that they exist; though perhaps it is better not to stay there too long.