Cato the Elder Quotes

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

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.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Empty stomachs have no ears.

Hunger is not debatable.

If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.

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

You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

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

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

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

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

I left home because I was hungry.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.