Hermann Goering Quotes

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

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.

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

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.

It is not a pleasure to be here. It's an embarrassment that we come so late, and that there are so few of us here.... It's an embarrassment that so much of the media are missing. They are more concerned with someone who drinks too much, when we are trying to deal with the issue of millions of people who are not eating at all.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

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.

Empty stomachs have no ears.

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?

This year alone, total world cereal production was estimated to be 2,114 million tons, while total cereal demand was projected at around 1007 million tones, less than half of the cereal production. Ideally, no one should starve or die of hunger in the world we live. Strangely and sadly enough, they do. This is not fair. This is not right.

Hunger is not debatable.

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines.

Famines were frequent in colonial India and some estimates indicate that 30 to 40 million died out of starvation in Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Bengal during the later half of the 19th century.

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

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.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

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

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

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