Hunger Crisis Quotes

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.

Hunger is never delicate.

A huge amount still needs to be done. At the moment hundreds of children are still malnourished.

There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

There's a lot of children that go to bed every night hungry in New York City, and it's shameful. That's really disturbing to me.

When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

America's dumpsters should not be better fed than its people.

Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.