Thomas Sowell Quotes

Hunger is the teacher of many.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

No agitation for political reforms could be carried on by a plague-stricken and starving people. Food was what they needed and most urgently demanded. The political argument died away, drowned in cries and petitions for relief, lost in weepings and wailings for the victims who were perishing in hundreds by the roadsides, in the fields, and in their bare and empty houses.

[Starving] women, children, the elderly, they don’t know anything about four-party talks. They want to eat. They want to live.

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

You eat anything when you need energy to survive and there's nothing in your body, when you are becoming just bones and tissues and muscles and I don't wish those circumstances on anybody.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

Hunger is never delicate.

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

Hunger allows no choice.

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

A hungry man is not a free man.

They that die by famine die by inches.

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

Hunger is the best pickle.