Raj Patel Quotes

No one has starved.

The whole district seemed swept of food and a third of the population would be without food at Christmas, two thirds starving before February and by May 1848, there would be a total starvation.

Wherever I go people recognize me, call my name, cheer for me. But there are names no one cares to remember, that no one cheers for: the 805 million people suffering from hunger in the world today.

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.

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.

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.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.

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

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.

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

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.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

You can’t make progress in any of the other problems in the world if people are undernourished.

Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature.

There are 6 million people in the world. With organic farming, we will only be able to feed 4 billion of them. Which 2 billion will volunteer to die?

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.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

Food is such a basic need, and it is unfathomable to me that people still do not have adequate access.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.