Silvio Berlusconi Quotes

A hungry man is not a free man.

Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

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

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

Empty stomachs have no ears.

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.

Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

Hunger allows no choice.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

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

The whole district seemed swept of food and a third of the population would be without food at Christmas, two thirds starving before February and by May 1848, there would be a total starvation.

Nobody in this country, the richest on Earth, should ever go hungry.

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.

Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger, the real cause in most of the incidents of hunger is lack of ability to pay for food. If we are looking for ways to end hunger then we should be looking at ways to ensure a reasonable level of income for all

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

What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

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

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

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.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.