Naveen Jain Quotes

A hungry man is not a free man.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

The poorest still deserve help with life's basic necessities regardless of the quality of their government.

Whatever people's backgrounds or values, a society where more and more people face a daily struggle to house, clothe and even feed themselves and their families cannot possibly be the answer.

I have seen my parents struggle with meagre means to run a family. That's why giving free and good education, free health services, water, electricity, public transport and safety of women are my top priority.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

It's often hard for us to imagine going without some of our luxuries like travel, dining out, or Internet, much less our basic necessities like food and water. But try for a minute to imagine how life would be with such deprivations.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

No man can live well, or indeed live at all, unless he be provided with necessaries.

They [the people] are offered the Constitution. But the people can't eat the Constitution.

The hungry and homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care for cultural heritage.

It is not enough, for example, to acknowledge and respect every man's right to the means of subsistence if we do not strive to the best of our ability for a sufficient supply of what is necessary for his sustenance

Of what use is political liberty to those who have no bread? It is of value only to ambitious theorists and politicians.

When you're drinking from a creek, it's not a good news story. When you don't have food for a baby, it's not a good news story.

I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.

A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin.

We're blessed to be worrying about the silly things that we worry about when people are worrying about where they are going to sleep, and what they are going to feed their kids every day.

Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

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

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

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?