Norman Borlaug Quotes About Hunger

• Some of the environmental lobbyists of the western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they would be crying out for tractors, and fertilizer, and irrigation canals, and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.

  Norman Borlaug

  Home, Years, Office

  Interview with Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1997.

• Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

  Norman Borlaug

  World, Food Banks, Ending Hunger

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

• The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

  Norman Borlaug

  People, Population, World

  "The Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity". Norman Borlaug's Nobel lecture in the auditorium of the Nobel Institute, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1970.

• Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

  Norman Borlaug

  Guiding Principles, Gmos, Justice

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

• Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

  Norman Borlaug

  Justice, Essentials, Adequate

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

• There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

  Norman Borlaug

  Fighting, Agency, Population Problem

  Norman Borlaug's acceptance speech for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1970.

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