Ban Ki-moon Quotes

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

People may have to die in the country and die through starvation.

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

They that die by famine die by inches.

Death by starvation is slow.

Whole families used to starve in their cabins without their plight being discovered until the stench of their decaying corpses attracted notice.

Hunger is the most influential disease.

That which could hunger, could starve.

Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this. You say: Wait, not this. And then it sucks you under and you drown.

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.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

I am dying of hunger.

England seizes our food whilst death seizes on our people.

Several million ordinary folk were killed and several hundred thousand starved to death; none of my acquaintances died of hunger.

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

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

What can be said about chronic hunger. Perhaps that there's a hunger that can make you sick with hunger. That it comes in addition to the hunger you already feel. That there is a hunger which is always new, which grows insatiably, which pounces on the never-ending old hunger that already took such effort to tame. How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry.