Sam Kinison Quotes

On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an extraordinarily skewed distribution system, substituting medium-run threats for short-term threats for the majority of the world's population, particularly the 50 to 80 percent at the bottom.

People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.

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.

We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.

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.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.

Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should also look hard at what else can be done earlier on. It is not the lack of food but the fact that some people cannot get access to the food that causes the famine.

The day you really want to end all hunger, there will be no more hunger.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices too.

Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?

In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.