Bob Geldof Quotes

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

When you're providing emergency aid, you're fighting hunger; you're filling stomachs.

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

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

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

If Victual should prove scarce, as we have not Goods or Money for any Value to send out for Corns [food grains like wheat]; so only a part of the People could be maintained: The better part would have Bread, but the more necessary part, the Laboring Men would be forced to leave the Country, or to starve in it.

If a man dies of hunger, all the people of the district are responsible for his death

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

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

Hunger's a great spur.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.

Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia for so long, it would be stupid not to be sensitive to the risk of such things occurring. But there has not been a famine on our watch - emergencies, but no famines.

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

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

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

The free press is good on major disasters like classic famines, but it tolerates chronic hunger as much as anyone else.

To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.

There are thousands of houses in England at this moment where wives, mothers and children are dying of hunger. When the first paroxysm of your grief is past ... come with me, and we will never rest until the Corn Law is repealed.

We Americans have food in massive oversupply. That oversupply has crushed farm prices. We must dispose of the surpluses in order to strengthen prices, and we should dispose of them by feeding the starving and hungry overseas and the malnourished at home.