“There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned; Successless wars, and poverty behind; Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores, And the rash hunter strangled by the boars; The newborn babe by nurses overlaid; And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.” MadeWarDeathFightingCitiesBehindsPovertyFireThousandShapesMurderSoldierCaughtRageViolentShipsCooksShoreNurseHuntersCorpsesBabeNewbornResignedCovertViolent DeathBoars Book:Palamon and Arcite Source: Palamon and Arcite
“It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.” WorldWarHandsRunningAgeMotherFightingCoursesPayPovertyEuropeRageShouldersWar Of The WorldsBeastWorld War IBloodyPay The PriceSlough Author:Kate Richards O'Hare
“We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.” PeopleNeedsStillsBeautifulYoungCulturePovertyWorryShareHavensPagesSittingTablesFilledRageProseConsiderationContemplatingHouseholdOppressedExquisiteDickensSitting Still Author:Frederick Busch
“Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.” PeopleMenWorldIdeasCountrySeemsMightAbleYoungPovertyEconomicShapesMarriedIslamRageYoung ManDecentDeclineGood LivingDecent Life Author:Salman Rushdie
“Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency?” IfsWorldMindPovertyCuttingPureSaintHungerRageSubstanceTendernessCurrencyTrafficAddictOblivion Author:Jeet Thayil