Cat Stevens Quotes

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

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

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

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

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.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

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

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

Hunger's a great spur.

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

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

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

Some people were breaking in to get food for their families. They were in survivor mode. Don’t confuse that with a guy carting off a 64 inch television set and looting…. The test is take the mirror and put it in front of your face and ask what would you do.

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.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God.

Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature.

Bread did not have its usual nourishing power and strength because the grain was not nourished by the warmth of summer sunshine. Hence those who ate it, even in large quantities, were hungry again after a little while. There can be no doubt that the poor wasted away when even the rich were constantly hungry.... Four pennies worth of coarse bread was not enough to feed a common man for one day. The usual kinds of meat, suitable for eating, were too scarce; horse meat was precious; plump dogs were stolen. And, according to many reports, men and women in many places secretly ate their own children....

If the government will not do something to keep the Utes from starving, then they will have to steal.

Empty stomachs have no ears.

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

Sire, have pity on the Spanish infantry, which, for lack of pay and out of sheer starvation, is scouring the low country round, plundering the peasantry in mere need of food. These disorders I cannot repress, much less can I punish them, for necessity has no law.

Hunger is not debatable.

I used to fill my stomach with water because I didn't have money to pay for food.