Rations Quotes

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

Patrick MacGill

Party, Provision, Sympathetic

MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.12, Read Books Ltd

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Busy people begrudge the days being short.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Stanley Kubrick

People, Sap, Fluoride

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I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

Judi Dench

Eggs, Tea, Yorkshire

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The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.

Kurt Bills

Reality, Choices, Scarcity

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Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

Julian Barnes

Fall, Boys, Yield

"Talking It Over". Book by Julian Barnes, books.google.ru. February 23, 2010.

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The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

David Foster Wallace

Pain, Vision, Pleasure

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In an interview, last year in the journal Biotechnology Healthcare, Dr. Berwick said, “The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.

Donald Berwick

Eye, Years, Decision

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He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Cutting, Opportunity, Men

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In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

William Eldridge Odom

War, Iraq, Soldier

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I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

Ernest Hemingway

Book, Reading, Reading Books

Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.18, Melville House

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Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

Dennis Green

Thinking, Taste, Slavery

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Thou shalt not ration justice.

Sophocles

Justice

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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

Susan Sontag

Art, Writing, Destiny

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This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

George Orwell

Animal, Half, Tyranny

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.22, Hamilton Books

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For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.

Eva Ibbotson

People, Eternity, Dare

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A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion

Gregory David Roberts

Christian, Wise, Buddhist

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Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.

Rick Riordan

Army, Boys, Thinking

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It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If we are able to keep our democracy, there must be once commandment: THOU SHALT NOT RATION JUSTICE.

Learned Hand

People, Justice, Democracy

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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.

Learned Hand

Justice, Political, Democracy

"Thou Shalt Not Ration Justice" (1951)

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All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.

George Orwell

Memorial Day, Ideas, Evil

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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

P. J. O'Rourke

Gun, Rights, People

"The Liberty Manifesto". P. J. O'Rourke 's Speech for the opening of the Cato Institute's headquarters in Washington, D.C., May 6, 1993.

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Time is money, every moment is costly,
So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.

Slug

Rap, Hip Hop, Causes

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It is probable that two proposed unknown rations are incommensurable because if many unknown rations are proposed it is most probable that any [one] would be incommensurable to any [other].

Nicole Oresme

Two, Would Be, Ifs

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How, voters will ask, can we cover 50 million new people without any new doctors or nurses? The answer is to ration health care, with the U.S. government deciding whom will get hip and knee replacements, heart bypass surgery and all manner of medical treatments. And what does rationing mean? It means that the elderly will be denied care, which they can now get whenever they want it.

Dick Morris

Heart, Mean, Doctors

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It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our special human existence by a mothering presence that gratifies our innate urges to be suckled, held, rocked, caressed. But that same gratifying presence puts limits on desire and rations satisfaction. In this sense the mother is also the first lawgiver.

Louise J. Kaplan

Mother, Special, Desire

Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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