Norman Borlaug Quotes

The destiny of world civilization depends on providing a decent standard of living for all mankind …. The first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

They [the people] are offered the Constitution. But the people can't eat the Constitution.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

We don't want to end up in a class war. We want everyone to have food, clean water, and a long life expectancy.

The poorest still deserve help with life's basic necessities regardless of the quality of their government.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

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

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

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

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

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

Ask an American about human rights and he'll say: freedom of speech. Ask an African woman about human rights and she'll say: the right to feed her children.

We have got to put a human face on the global economy.

Every man has a right to bread.

Of what use is political liberty to those who have no bread? It is of value only to ambitious theorists and politicians.

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