Thaksin Shinawatra Quotes

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 am dying of hunger.

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

Death by starvation is slow.

There’s a difference between fasting for a week and starving for a week.

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

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

To be hungry must be awful.

In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.

They that die by famine die by inches.

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

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

I think I could survive a week without eating.

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

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

On Tuesday morning a large group of women came and. demanded, peace .The next day they came again in a far greater number... they became unruly and many women were killed by the trained guard.

People may have to die in the country and die through starvation.

England seizes our food whilst death seizes on our people.

Several million ordinary folk were killed and several hundred thousand starved to death; none of my acquaintances died of hunger.

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....

I acknowledge that guns kill people, but so do a lot of other things like starvation.

Whole families used to starve in their cabins without their plight being discovered until the stench of their decaying corpses attracted notice.

Hunger is a bad adviser.

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want.

There are at least 1 billion people who struggle for basic caloric protein sufficiency; probably another 2 billion people … who have serious micronutrient deficiency… We don’t have a healthy food supply for the world, nor is it assured for the future.