Confucius Quotes

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

I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

I have stopped at farm after farm where lean, underfed women and sickly men repeated again and again the same story—little food and no opportunity to get more.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

None of the lower orders need suffer for an hour, the Poor House is open.

The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.

Hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans

Hunger is the most influential disease.

It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat.

We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

A huge amount still needs to be done. At the moment hundreds of children are still malnourished.

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

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

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

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

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.

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.

If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.

Hunger's a great spur.

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

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

Fiscal prudence does not prevent government from providing shelter for the homeless, work for the idle, care for the elderly and infirm, and hope for the destitute.

You can’t make progress in any of the other problems in the world if people are undernourished.