Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll of toilet paper.

to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.”We have always loved war. We are born knowing that war is why we’re here. And we love disease. Cancer....

I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a shit. What’s...

Everyday 25,000 people die from poverty and hunger. And we have forgotten that they are also human.

I don’t know what’s worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

I want to end global hunger by feeding half the world’s starving people to the other half.

Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the...

With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind.

Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this is a picture about love. Filial love. The old man has been condemned...

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two hundred years of vain efforts and of spending millions of dollars with the...

Desire is the kind of thing thateats youandleaves you starving.

At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling up shoes and belts. (Tannery processes had changed, they discovered, since the days...

Never judge the deeds of a starving man while you’re on a full tummy.

Always make time to eat. Always. There’s enough starving children in the world without adding to their number

Tolstoy said, ‘The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.’ Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our...

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people...

Food’s the killer. The clock starts as soon as the troops are on the ground. You wouldn’t believe how fast they consume what they’re carrying, and then … if I don’t get them more, if...

Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed – to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The summer catch had been poor; there wasn’t much food. They ate with care...

The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.

North Korea is a famine state. In the fields, you can see people picking up loose grains of rice and kernels of corn, gleaning every scrap. They look pinched and exhausted. In the few, dingy...

You cannot sensibly expect a starving ‘God-fearing’ man to honor the 8th commandment.

Some of the things that beat the shit out of you . . . can beat the bullshit out of you too.

Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition.

To combat death you don’t need much of a life, just one that isn’t yet finished.

In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of starvation at the University of Minnesota Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene. It was hoped...

If you’re hungry, eat one of my new starvation pills. They taste like silence.

Every lineament of the girl’s wasted body is a testament to her inner turmoil. Willow can only imagine what kind of pain she must be in to destroy herself that way. She knows there’s something...

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many...

At the Peabody Hotel, you’ll find two things: a pea and a body. Was it murder by starvation? Come spend the night and decide for yourself.

Ever two seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies of starvation. That means every two seconds there is a story where the main character dies. That’s a lot of horrible stories. So if my...

The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings...

She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing...

Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer’s financial aspirations, and, working-hours.

Feel what it’s like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you’ll forever think twice before wasting food.

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

Children are better to starve than forced into prostitution.

Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he took Viagra.

Everyone was always hungry. The poorer you were, the hungrier you were, and with the hunger came weakness and irritability. It became difficult to think clearly and you needed to think clearly to work out...

Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

Out in the fjord I dragged myself up at once, wet with fever and exhaustion, and gazed landwards, and bade farewell for the present to the town – to Christiania, where the windows gleamed so...

One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in...