Rajneesh Quotes

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.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

I left home because I was hungry.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

The hungry man does not hear.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

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?

And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the next life.

... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

A hungry man is an angry one.

I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.

Without land, we are condemned to death. No one will accept that. Families will fight. We prefer to die rather than live without land.

A hungry belly hears nobody.