Vladimir Lenin Quotes

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.

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

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

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

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

A hungry man is not a free man.

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

Hunger's a great spur.

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

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor.

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

Better to starve fighting than to starve working.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

You cannot in practice have a federal guarantee that people won't starve.

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.

People who, whether they inhabit the desert or settled areas and cities, live a life of abundance and have all the good things to eat, die more quickly than others when a drought or famine comes upon them