Colin Farrell Quotes

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.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

No one has starved.

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

Too many children and adults go hungry every day.

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

I do think we have a food problem. In 2006, which is the year for which we have the latest data, 35.5 million Americans were food insecure. That means there are 35.5 million Americans who are so hard up at some point during the year that they didn't know where their next meal was coming from. That's a lot of Americans. They don't get reported very much because there's nothing spectacular about people skipping a meal because they're poor. The media tends to ignore that, just as it ignores the sort of chronic food shortages elsewhere in the world.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world. It claims 25,000 lives a day, 175,000 a week. It sweeps children from the arms of their mothers, robs hundreds of millions of any hope for the future. That tsunami is hunger. Help us end it now.

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

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

There are 6 million people in the world. With organic farming, we will only be able to feed 4 billion of them. Which 2 billion will volunteer to die?

Hunger is the most influential disease.

Hunger is a bad adviser.