
“The people are patient, but the stomach cannot wait too long.”
Djakarta Dispatches https://books.google.com/books?id=R8oAbRp1gVsC&pg=RA35-PP15&lpg=RA35-PP15&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false (1960)
“The people are patient, but the stomach cannot wait too long.”
Djakarta Dispatches https://books.google.com/books?id=R8oAbRp1gVsC&pg=RA35-PP15&lpg=RA35-PP15&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false (1960)
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
Writing for the court, Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165 (1952). The unanimous decision reversed the conviction of an alleged drug addict because evidence was obtained by forced stomach pumping.
Judicial opinions
“A hungry stomach cannot hear.”
Book IX (1678–1679), fable 18.
Fables (1668–1679)
“Human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.”
"Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", p. 286
Cloud Atlas (2004)
Quando mi viene in mente un bell'aforisma, lo metto in conto a Montesquieu, od a La Rochefoucauld. Non si sono mai lamentati.
cited in Mai dette, ma le ripetiamo sempre Ecco le frasi fantasma della storia http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/mai-dette-ripetiamo-sempre-ecco-frasi-fantasma-storia.html by Luigi Mascheroni, in il Giornale, 21 March 2009, p. 22.
2000s - 2010s