Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Hunger is the teacher of many.

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

[Starving] women, children, the elderly, they don’t know anything about four-party talks. They want to eat. They want to live.

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.

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

Hunger allows no choice.

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

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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.

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.

Empty stomachs have no ears.

Hunger is not debatable.

Nobody in this country, the richest on Earth, should ever go hungry.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.

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

Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

You can drill down on where hunger comes from and figure it out from there, but there absolutely has to be a sense of urgency if you're going to play tennis because you're the team - there's no one for you to rely on but yourself.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead