Ertharin Cousin Quotes

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

[Starving] women, children, the elderly, they don’t know anything about four-party talks. They want to eat. They want to live.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

Hunger allows no choice.

I left home because I was hungry.

I used to fill my stomach with water because I didn't have money to pay for food.

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

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

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

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

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.

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

The hungry man does not hear.

People who are starving can hardly become a peaceful people.

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.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

Empty stomachs have no ears.

Conflict and callous politics drive famine.

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

I would take vouchers, do sums in my head just to get some eggs and bread or a tin of cheap Irish stew. I'd be starving and want two tins but couldn't afford it. The poorer you are the hungrier you feel.

You eat anything when you need energy to survive and there's nothing in your body, when you are becoming just bones and tissues and muscles and I don't wish those circumstances on anybody.