Paul R. Ehrlich Quotes

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

The free press is good on major disasters like classic famines, but it tolerates chronic hunger as much as anyone else.

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

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

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

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.

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.

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

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?

That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.

This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world, unfortunately, many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.

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.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.

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

Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this. You say: Wait, not this. And then it sucks you under and you drown.

If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!