591 Quotes About Hunger

By defining the problem as "hunger," the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

Jeremy Bentham argued that 'even in the best of times the great mass of citizens will most probably possess few resources other than their daily labour and, consequently, be always near indigence'. As long as working man was near indigence, hunger would remain an effective tool to goad him to labour. Bentham argued that an important task of government was to ensure conditions of deprivation, thereby guaranteeing that hunger would [be a constant motivation to work].

The Red Cross, our last hope, had left us to starve.

We must work hard to cultivate the land to plant more crops.

People in the world fall at the feet of people due to hunger and poverty but Karbala is the only place where people fall at the feet to feed.

So lässt sich Konsum als Kompensationsstrategie lesen, die zur kurzfristigen Sättigung führen kann, aber scheinbar nicht den eigentlichen Hunger stillt.

Democratic State has an obligation to protect the weak; anarchy thrives on the weakness and helplessness of the weak. A democratic State that does not protect the weak from unlawful coercion and from hunger invites its own doom and creates space for anarchy.

Love is what I sought."Hunger," they called it.

Her belly was beginning to complain with hunger, and she had to imagine that the others were feeling the same. They were holding the bridge of the largest spacecraft humanity had ever built, trapped in the starless dark by an alien power they barely began to comprehend, but they were still constrained by the petty needs of flesh, and their collective blood sugar was getting pretty low.