Mo Yan Quotes

A hungry man is not a free man.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work.

As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

No American should have to choose between heating and eating.

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

We came from nothing really. One house. Ten people. Even days the lights was off. The worst days was not eating. Surviving off rice and toast.

There are a lot of myths about food banks, but the truth is that many people are increasingly having to turn to them just to put food on the table, including many in work.

We were poor and lived modestly, but we always had food on the table.

Yeah, I'll basically do anything to make money for food.

I would take vouchers, do sums in my head just to get some eggs and bread or a tin of cheap Irish stew. I'd be starving and want two tins but couldn't afford it. The poorer you are the hungrier you feel.

I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to be homeless. I know what it's like to have to choose between breaking the law and feeding yourself. I know what it's like to take meals at shelters and at Salvation Army facilities. I know what it's like to beg for money on the streets.

If you know where your next meal is coming from, you are not poor.

In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a mother with three kids and no financial security is going to stiffen her lip and take the abuse, because not only does she have nowhere else to go, she has three children depending on her for survival.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

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

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

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.

I just want to tell you what it's like not to have Planned Parenthood... you have to give your kids Ramen noodles at the end of the month to fill up their little bellies so they won't cry. You have to give them mayonnaise sandwiches. They get very few fruits and vegetables because they're expensive.