~2 min read · Updated Dec 14, 2025

Beautiful Quotes from Humans and Crabs

"Humans often forget that more than half of their body is water; but they do not forget that water has turned their lives into mud."

"Poverty is not only the lack of food; poverty is the lack of opportunity to be human."

"They were alive because they breathed; but they did not live, because they had no future."

"Hope is the last thing to die in hunger, and often the only thing that remains."

"History is written not with swords, but with empty stomachs."

"In the swamp, man becomes either hunter or prey; there is no third way."

"The silence there was full of screams no one wanted to hear."

"Justice, for those who eat crabs, is a luxury and unattainable concept."

"The only thing that made that swamp bearable was the blind resistance of life."

"No one can claim honor when another dies of hunger."

"The children there were old men who had not yet grown."

"Death was the only moment when hunger stopped forever."

"Freedom there was as impossible as a piece of bread."

"The sun shone on everyone; but its warmth was only for those who were full."

"The real revolution is against indifference, not against power."

"They clung to the earth like roots, afraid that if they let go, they would die."

Written & researched by Dr. Shahin Siami

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