Paul Samuelson Quotes

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

This year, between 20 and 30 million persons will die of hunger in Russia …. Perhaps it is well that it should be so, for certain nations must be decimated.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

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

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it?

A hungry man is not a free man.

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

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.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry.

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

What must a poor nation do when its very sustenance depends on the remains and bits that the nations gracefully throw them, once they have had their fill…. Our planet is rich enough to provide for all of us, so why this tragic war for life which has been clouding our lives for generations?

People who are starving can hardly become a peaceful people.

Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature.

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.

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

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.

One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.

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

We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

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.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.