109 World Starving Quotes
Following is our list of world starving quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about world hunger.
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Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight. — Roseanne Barr
35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war. — Jeff Bridges
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available. — Ronald Reagan
Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year. — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat. — Amartya Sen
The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation. — John F. Kennedy
Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts. — Jaggi Vasudev
Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet. — Fidel Castro
We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry. — Jimmy Carter
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply. — Thomas Malthus
A hungry man is not a free man. — Adlai Stevenson
Hunger is the handmaid of genius — Mark Twain
It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese. — Paul Polman
Better to starve free than be a fat slave — Aesop
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery. — Norman Borlaug
Short World Starving Quotes
- There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. — Mahatma Gandhi
- Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. — Richard Wright
- Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice. — Jacques Diouf
- They that die by famine die by inches. — Matthew Henry
- It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!! — Sam Kinison
- Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers. — Cherrie Moraga
- You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. — Heinrich Heine
- We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude. — Brené Brown
- We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping. — Penelope Cruz
Starving Quotes
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. — Mark Twain
It only takes a second to call a girl fat and She'll take a lifetime trying to starve herself.. think before you act. — Harry Styles
When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever. — Archibald MacLeish
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. — E. O. Wilson
Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength. — Fannie Lou Hamer
Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war? — Daniel Berrigan
I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It is true that global wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequalities have also grown and new poverty arisen. — Pope Francis
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. — Benjamin Harrison
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes. — Peter Kreeft
World Hunger Quotes
To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God. — Smith Wigglesworth
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. — Frederick Buechner
Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus. — Billy Graham
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. — Mother Teresa
The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world. — Federico Garcia Lorca
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. — Nelson Mandela
The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen. — Federico Garcia Lorca
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. — George C. Marshall
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war. — Fidel Castro
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. — Jonathan Sacks
Love And Starving Quotes
You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me. — Cassandra Clare
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! — O. Henry
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. — Charles Caleb Colton
It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married. — Jim Carrey
Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do. — Celia Imrie
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find. — Anne Lamott
I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go. — Frank Leslie
I don't really have any advice for people who love each other and both happen to be writers, other than one of the two people in the couple better be slightly less in the clouds all day, or else you'll both starve to death. Humans really can't survive on just coffee alone, I don't think. — Tod Goldberg
I don't think that Saddam Hussein is deliberately starving his own people. I would think that a man who gets 99 percent of the people to vote for him in an election and the people love him so much, how would they love a man that is starving them? — Louis Farrakhan
Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love. — Annie Dillard
I Am Starving Quotes
I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving. — Sylvia Pankhurst
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. — Jane Austen
By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care. — Nellie L. McClung
People call me fat, but I don't care. I don't want to starve myself cause I am beautiful the way I am. — Jennifer Lawrence
I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them. — Alexander Whyte
I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy. — Laurie Halse Anderson
I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people. — Henry Miller
Why, when people are starving, am I on a carpet that's red? Because I'm "important"? Because I'm "famous"? That's not how I roll. — Miley Cyrus
I am closer to the pacifist side, in that I think that the British response to German aggression, which was to try to starve the Continent into a state of revolt and to terrorize German civilians with bombing raids, was part of the total catastrophe. — Nicholson Baker
By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have; that's how I look at my role. — Bob Harper
People Writing About World Starving
More World Starving Quotes
We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed. — Andrew Harvey
I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it. — Emma Thompson
Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve. — Dorothee Solle
You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability. — John Shelby Spong
Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
The world is starving for original and decisive leadership. — Bryant H. McGill
In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond. — Malala Yousafzai
A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people! — Marc Bekoff
To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. — C. S. Lewis
It's sad to hear that 1 in 3 girls have an eating disorder, because they're trying to be something that they think they need to be, when it's such a lie that they believe. Meanwhile all over the world there's people that are starving or dying of something crazy that we forget, and we think we're the only ones in this world. — Bethany Hamilton
The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder. — G. K. Chesterton
It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political. — Judith Light
I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy. — Jehan Sadat
People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that. — Larry Page
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst. Secrets are impossible. He identifies with his surroundings and they live within him unconsciously; it is perhaps for this reason that the small child has been characterized as naturally religious. — Mary Caroline Richards
Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market. — Noam Chomsky
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used. — Milton Friedman
The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith. — Anais Nin
If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams? — Gregor Collins
It hit me very early on that something was terribly wrong, that I would see silos full of food and supermarkets full of food, and kids starving. ... In Fair Trade, we see ourselves as this infinitesimal part of the world economy. But somebody's got to come up with an alternative model that says children eating is No. 1. — Medea Benjamin
Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question. — Benjamin Disraeli
The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life. — Neale Donald Walsch
In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story. — Sheryl Crow
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom. — Diane Ackerman
There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits - and not by accident but because agribusiness is going over there and imposing our habits on them - if the population doesn't increase at all, we'll have to raise twice as many animals as we do. — Jonathan Safran Foer
There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education. — Daphne Koller
Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There's just too much at stake. — Bill Hybels
I think we're starved for a life of the senses. We're in the garage, we're in the car, we drive to work, we're in a windowless cubicle that's gray and beige. In a way, it's funny that we consider ourselves an advanced culture, because people who live in so-called primitive environments still enjoy the richness of the smells, colors, and sounds of our world. We all crave that. — Janet Fitch
In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is someone's rude to us, or we accidentally insult someone. Social faux pas is the worst thing that happens to most people, most days, so we've got to concentrate on that, really. — Ricky Gervais
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving. — Ellen Gustafson
Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving. — Ellen Gustafson
In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! — Lloyd Kaufman
The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past. — Bryant H. McGill
It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat. — Charles Barkley
When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic glamour. It was all very naïve. Of course, the only part of the stereotype that has proven true is the suffering and the starving. Now, my fantasy of scribbling poems in a tower is gone, but an anxiety about reviews, book sales, and awards has taken its place. — Robin Beth Schaer
There are people all over the world starving and here we are trying to get pot delivered for free; we felt kind of guilty. — Al Jourgensen
The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved. — Margaret Atwood
Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people who professed to be interested in human rights, was that activism was somewhat a concept in their mind - a symbolic flag on the quad or something to show how many people were starving in the world. But once they saw their efforts connected to a person, I did see a change. — Adam Braver
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