Willy Brandt Quotes

A hungry man is not a free man.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Why should Americans go on with their lives as normal, worrying about calories and hair loss, while other people are worrying about where they are going to get their next piece of bread?

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.

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.

How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?

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 who are starving can hardly become a peaceful people.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

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

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

Hunger is an issue that I've cared about for a very long time and is incredibly personal and important to me.

There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable.

In my opinion, peace has not come to America, to Nicaragua, or to El Salvador. A hungry people is a people without peace. If the demands of the people are not met, what kind of peace are we talking about?

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

It's shocking to me still, that children - just because of where they're born - are born into a life of extreme poverty and hunger. Humans, we can survive without a lot of luxuries we are lucky to live with. But the thing we need most is healthy food and clean water. Without that we can't survive and we can't thrive.

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.

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.