Alastair Reynolds Quotes

Hunger is the mother of anarchy.

We're gonna be in a world of hurt if we don't get it fixed, because there's going to be billions of people out there - they're hungry, they're mad. One thing that they can get their hands on is guns.

I hate it when people throw away food - I've seen too many hungry people.

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?

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

We paid a big price for not stopping it -- that is the looting and the security -- because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness. We never had enough troops on the ground

A general dissatisfaction unhappily prevailed among several of the lower orders of the people. This ill temper, which was partly occasioned by the high price of provisions ... too frequently manifested itself in acts of tumult and riot ...

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

If Victual should prove scarce, as we have not Goods or Money for any Value to send out for Corns [food grains like wheat]; so only a part of the People could be maintained: The better part would have Bread, but the more necessary part, the Laboring Men would be forced to leave the Country, or to starve in it.

If a man dies of hunger, all the people of the district are responsible for his death

Yesterday a crowd of women assembled on the public square and marching thence down Main, sacked several shoe, grocery and other stores. Their pretense was bread; but their motive really was license. Few of them have really felt want. The President went down amongst them and said a few words to them telling them that the course they were pursuing was the one most likely to bring scarcity of food on the city.... It was a real women’s riot, but as yet there is really little cause for one—there is scarcity, but little want.

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.

People don't realize that we're spending money throwing food away rather than feeding people.

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

Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?