Hunger Quotes

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  The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Positive

  Interview with Edward W. Desmond, Time magazine, December 04, 1989.

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• Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

  Diane Ackerman

  Garden, Boston, House

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.62, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Josette Sheeran

  Children, Health, Malaria

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• There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Human Rights, Humiliation, Abusive

  Acceptance Speech on Assumption of office as President of India, pib.nic.in. July 25, 2012.

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• Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

  Aristophanes

  No Friends, Ending Hunger, World Hunger

  Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1962). “The wasps: Translated by Douglass Parker”

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• As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.

  Willy Brandt

  Long

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• Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Order, Overcoming

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• There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Hunger For Love, People

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Inspirational, Beauty, Truth

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.121, A&C Black

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• Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

  Willa Cather

  Powerful, Incentives, Introspection

  Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.134, Wildside Press LLC

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• Hunger makes a thief of any man.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Sad, Men, Hunger And Poverty

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Good Earth”, p.154, Open Road Media

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• An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Gulliver, Poor Nations

  Jonathan Swift (1826). “Gulliver's Travels”

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• Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Expression, History, Energy

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• We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

  Jimmy Carter

  Two, Long, Peaceful

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Childhood, Poverty

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• Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger only through the wonderful work of local charities. Like other Western democracies, we must end our national problem of hunger through national and political leadership. Charity is nice for some things, but not as a way to feed a nation. We don't protect our national security through charity, and we shouldn't protect our families and children that way either.

  Jeff Bridges

  Children, Nice, Inspiration

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• An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Money, Hunger And Poverty, Important

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• Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Stronger, Littles

  "The Hunger Games". m.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Hunger allows no choice.

  W. H. Auden

  Choices

  'September 1, 1939' (1940)

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• When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

  Hélder Câmara

  Motivational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  "Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest's Journey from Jail". Book by Father John Dear, 1995.

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• There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

  Ed Asner

  Food Banks, Ending Hunger, World

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• Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

  Mother Teresa

  Sad, Sympathy, Thinking

  Speech by the President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at the Birth Centenary Celebrations of Mother Teresa, pib.nic.in. August 30, 2010.

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• Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Cooking, World

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1733). “The history of the valorous and witty knight-errant don Quixote of the Mancha. Tr. by mr. Shelton, and mr. Blunt. Pr. from the quarto ed. of 1620. With cutts from Coypell. And several annotations and amendments, not in any former ed. With a preface”, p.31

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• The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

  Socrates

  Drink, Appetite, Thirst

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