Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

I used to fill my stomach with water because I didn't have money to pay for food.

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.

Bread did not have its usual nourishing power and strength because the grain was not nourished by the warmth of summer sunshine. Hence those who ate it, even in large quantities, were hungry again after a little while. There can be no doubt that the poor wasted away when even the rich were constantly hungry.... Four pennies worth of coarse bread was not enough to feed a common man for one day. The usual kinds of meat, suitable for eating, were too scarce; horse meat was precious; plump dogs were stolen. And, according to many reports, men and women in many places secretly ate their own children....

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

I left home because I was hungry.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

They that die by famine die by inches.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Hunger is a bad adviser.

The awful phantom of the hungry poor.

After you've cut back everything else, food is the last to go. I didn't mind putting an extra jumper on if I had food in the fridge. It was the point where I had an extra jumper on and no food in the fridge that I realised things had gone badly wrong.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

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.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

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.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

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.