Dennis Weaver Quotes

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

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.

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

There are 6 million people in the world. With organic farming, we will only be able to feed 4 billion of them. Which 2 billion will volunteer to die?

Food security is not only a matter of humanitarian assistance and agricultural development; it is a matter of national security, peace and stability.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.