Beji Caid Essebsi Quotes

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

Yeah, I'll basically do anything to make money for food.

But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That's what families care about.

Of what use is political liberty to those who have no bread? It is of value only to ambitious theorists and politicians.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Go to the streets and ask for work. If they don’t give you work, ask for bread. If they don’t give you bread, then take it.

What can he do who lacks the necessary work, if he comes to be unemployed? He has nothing but to let himself die of hunger. Then a few phrases of pity will thrown on his cadaver.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.

There is nothing remotely dignified about sorting through rotting trash to find something to feed your child, or asking someone for money because you have none (anyone who has contrived to give people money before they had to ask will never forget the look of gratitude in their eyes).

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

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.