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Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.
Hunger and fear are excellent casuists.
We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.
We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.
A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.
Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want. Not that all who perish from want absolutely die of hunger; though this calamity is of more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed.
There is no greater humiliation than hunger.
Death from hunger happened a hundred yards from death from obesity.
She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.
Hunger is not an object.
There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.
My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.
The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number of working poor, struggling to survive, who don't have enough money to put adequate food on the table. We must find a solution to this ever-increasing problem - and quickly.
She was starved hurting limbs.
Tormented by an unworldly hunger, yet not knowing how to satisfy it.
Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man.
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.
Hunger not to have, but to beHunger-- John Dewey
Starvation sounds almost unbelievable in forest country, and yet it is only too likely to happen. - Percy Harrison Fawcett
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.
Hunger is not just an economic problem. It is a moral and spiritual problem.
Sex. Hunger. Rage. Hunger. Sex. Hunger. Rage. Hunger.
The underlying questions of appetite, after all, are formidable - What would satisfy? How much do you need, and of what? What are the true passions, the real hungers behind the ostensible goals of beauty or slenderness?
I am dying of hunger.
The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
To my own demise, I rarely ask why I'm hungry because I'm focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.
Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat. Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread;
The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.
More organizations die of indigestion than starvation
When times are bad and sustenance dwindling, the starving eat their heroes first.
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.
Hunger is the mother of anarchy.
Try to be free: you will die of hunger.
Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed.
Would you rather be hungry or dead?
Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.
The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.
Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.
Death. Starvation. Blindness. Another grim day in our village.
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger
not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
in many societies more people are in danger of dying from obesity than from starvation.
The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.
Hunger is the best seasoning.
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.
Life is a banquet, and most people are starving to death.
All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.
For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.
...grief.
If you eat too much of it, you want more, you can never get enough.
We have to eat to live, and that's our timeless tale of tragedy.
People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.
When the average American says, "I'm starving," it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant.
One man starving puts a crimp in my evening.
hundred million Europeans were living on fifteen hundred calories a day - the level at which health begins to suffer from malnutrition. As
Food is not your best friend or enemy.
No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days.
I curse the day starvation became a commonly accepted diet for women.
The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you seek your own way? (Deuteronomy 8:1-3)
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
Starving is the feminine thing to do these days, the way swooning was in Victorian times.
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intempe diet.
Hunger is my crime.
People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you.
To be hungry must be awful.
Philosophy and hunger: quite a combination.
Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
Food, the southern offering on the altar of crisis.
The tragedy of this age is that many are hungry for the wrong reasons
There'd been months when hunger seemed to be the driving force in his life.
To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.
Now begin
Famines of thought and feeling.
Those who don't feed themselves
with food of hope
will eventually die
of mental starvation
What is the use of living if you cannot eat cheese and pickles?
People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end.
Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
No amount of good food can nourish a starving soul.
Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
Nutrition ... has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly ...
It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
What nourishes me, destroys me
The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.
Starvation does not occur because of a world food shortage. If everyone ate a vegetarian, or better still, a vegan diet there would be enough food for everyone. The only sane way forward is to grow food for humans rather than to feed it to farmed animals..
Supply had been cut off and livestock were dying of thirst.
I'm one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.
Eating, too, has been turned away from its true nature: want on the one hand and superfluity on the other have troubled the clarity of this need, and all the profound, simple necessities in which life renews itself have similarly been obscured.
Hungry don't get fed.
If hunger could please God, millions hadn't starved to death.
perpetual diet of coffee and cigarettes.
Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst
Hunger is the best sauce.