Pierre Choderlos Laclos Quotes

To a man with an empty stomach food is God.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

A hungry belly hears nobody.

Empty stomachs have no ears.

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

The hungry man does not hear.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

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

The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.

There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

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.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.