Marjane Satrapi Quotes

One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

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

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

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?

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

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

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Hunger allows no choice.

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.

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.

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

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

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

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it?