It is an insult to a starving people to offer them religion; it is an insult to a starving man to teach him metaphysics.
You can’t make progress in any of the other problems in the world if people are undernourished.
There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.
When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.
Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.
I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.
Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.
Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (“cognitive impairment” ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment — the kind most common among poor people in America — can do it.
India unfortunately has the unenviable reputation of being the home to the largest number of undernourished children, women and men in the world.
No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.
We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.
When I was at school, you could tell the demography of children by how thin they were. You could see by looking at their eyes.
It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.
starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
I am dying of hunger.
The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.
You can't expect kids who don't have enough to eat to do well.
People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.
The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.
It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.
