Kit Carson Quotes

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

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.

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

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Bread did not have its usual nourishing power and strength because the grain was not nourished by the warmth of summer sunshine. Hence those who ate it, even in large quantities, were hungry again after a little while. There can be no doubt that the poor wasted away when even the rich were constantly hungry.... Four pennies worth of coarse bread was not enough to feed a common man for one day. The usual kinds of meat, suitable for eating, were too scarce; horse meat was precious; plump dogs were stolen. And, according to many reports, men and women in many places secretly ate their own children....

Empty stomachs have no ears.

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

I used to fill my stomach with water because I didn't have money to pay for food.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

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

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

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

At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

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

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Hunger allows no choice.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would stop and look into the trash cans, and if there was a half a sandwich, I would take that sandwich and eat it. It was just a matter of survival. I didn't think much of it, but it was just the way things were.