desperation quotes

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. The purpose shall be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

- George C(atlett) Marshall
  Speech at Harvard, 5  Jun, announcing the European Recovery Plan (ER A) that became known as the Marshall Plan.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

- Henry David Thoreau
  Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Economy'.