Khmer Rouge Quotes

People may have to die in the country and die through starvation.

We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

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.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.

Hunger's a great spur.

The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.

Poor young children and the elderly must be fed at public expense.

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.

Hunger is not debatable.

I know how it feels to go hungry.

Too many children and adults go hungry every day.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

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

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

They that die by famine die by inches.

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 I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.