Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: justice war hunger humanity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. —Mother Teresa More about this quote Tags: hunger love wealth belonging Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men know what I mean. —Lin-Chi More about this quote Tags: hunger wisdom food eating tiredness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Eating is never so simple as hunger. —Erica Jong More about this quote Tags: hunger food eating psychology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide. —Eric Sevareid More about this quote Tags: hunger crime food suicide want Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death. —J. P. Donleavy More about this quote Tags: hunger health money death sex food Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. —Ninon de L'Enclos More about this quote Tags: hunger love starvation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly; feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: hunger reason rationality denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A hungry man is not a free man. —Adlai Stevenson More about this quote Tags: hunger freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A few of his disciples had decided to do a "grape cure" and eat nothing but grapes and grape juice for a while. Paramahansa Yogananda smiled when he heard about this and remarked, "Devotion is the greatest purifier." His disciple Donald Walters asked, "Is it your wish then, Sir, that we break this fast?" "Well, I don't want you to break your wills," said Yogananda, "now that you have set them in this way. But your time would be better spent if you worked on developing devotion. A pure heart is the way to God, not a pure stomach. —William Ashoka Ross More about this quote Tags: hunger food fasting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He whose belly is full believes not him whose belly is empty. —Thomas Fuller More about this quote Tags: hunger belief fullness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than just observes. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve. —Dorothe Sölle More about this quote Tags: hunger fear religion starving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. —Pearl Bailey More about this quote Tags: hunger learning violence producing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have two enemies in all the world, / Two twins, inseparably pooled: / The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full. —Marina Tsvetaeva More about this quote Tags: hunger enemies fullness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a poor man knocks at your door and says, "I'm hungry," and your first thought is Why can't you get a job?, you've invaded his privacy. Why would you need to know why he can't get a job? He didn't come to discuss his inabilities or bad habits; he came to discuss his hunger. If you want to do something about it, feed him. —Rabbi Manis Friedman More about this quote Tags: hunger privacy poverty habit job ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email