Hamza Yusuf Quotes

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Empty stomachs have no ears.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.

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

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

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.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Hunger is the best pickle.

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

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

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

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

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

The hungry man does not hear.

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 come with me, and we will never rest until the Corn Law is repealed.

No one wants to kiss when they are hungry.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

The hungry and homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care for cultural heritage.

Hunger could not exist but through violation of economic laws and fundamental principles of social justice.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

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.