quotations about hunger
Despite the overt powerlessness of the hungry, hunger itself is a profound and omnipresent threat. And so hunger must be domesticated. For the status quo--political, social, and personal--to remain, hunger must be tamed.
DAVID L. L. SHIELDS
"Race and Poverty in the Psychology of Prejudice", The Color of Hunger
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Year of the Flood
Hunger is the best sauce.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Year of the Flood
If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
BUZZ ALDRIN
attributed, Rise Against Hunger
A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.
GERVASE MARKHAM
Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen
I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
ANN VOSKAMP
One Thousand Gifts
Hunger allows no choice.
W. H. AUDEN
"September 1, Selected Poems
We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to sh*t. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a f***ing lactose intolerance?!
CHRIS ROCK
stand-up routine
Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet.
JACKIE MORSE KESSLER
Hunger
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT & JOHN FLETCHER
The Honest Man's Fortune
Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.
ROBERT JORDAN
The Eye of the World
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. This is how prayer works.
POPE FRANCIS
attributed, Rise Against Hunger
What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
ROBERT LACEY & DANNY DANZIGER
The Year 1000
Our body is a circle of messages: communication, feedback, updates. Hunger and satiety are the most basic of these. Every day, we learn more about how this system works. We know what hormones run through the blood screaming, "Eat!" We know which ones follow murmuring, "Enough." We know that it is relatively easy to repress the signal for enough. A gene malfunctions, and a three-year-old girl weighs a hundred pounds: her body does not tell her when to stop eating. That signal is complexly influenced by genetics, chemistry, and culture. For many of us, it has become blurred. Our body doesn't give us the news or doesn't give it with enough emphasis.
SHARMAN APT RUSSELL
Hunger: An Unnatural History
Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren't satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
ANN VOSKAMP
One Thousand Gifts
Hunger makes a fool of a man.
H. G. WELLS
"The Diamond Maker"
Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
VERA NAZARIAN
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Whatever satisfies hunger is good food.
CHINESE PROVERB
Hunger eats through stone walls.
DUTCH PROVERB
For prejudice to reduce the threat of hunger effectively, the hungry must be assimilated into a category laden with negative stereotypes. Consequently, the images of the hungry are colored. Dominant-culture whites perceive the hungry as people of color, mostly black. This is true on both a global and domestic level. Despite the fact that the majority of the world's hungry live in Asia, it is African hunger--black hunger--that is the prevailing stereotype. When the hungry are colored black, the principles of attribution that characterize prejudicial perception come into play. The reader will recall that when negative events occur, blame is placed on the victim if that person is a member of an out-group. Correspondingly, the hungry themselves (or, by extension, their parents or their governments) often are blamed for their plight. African people, and hungry Africans in particular, are thought to lack sufficient industriousness or knowledge or integrity. Of course, massive hunger does not readily fit this paradigm. Consequently, when the severity of hunger is extreme and the numbers of hungry immense, such as in a large-scale famine, then the stereotype shifts to that of helpless children bantered about by the cruel but impersonal forces of nature. In either case, hungry people are not viewed as equals; they are not encountered as full human persons with dignity, individuality, and competence.
DAVID L. L. SHIELDS
"Race and Poverty in the Psychology of Prejudice", The Color of Hunger