#hunger

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#death #elements #envy #every #hunger

We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food. ↗

— Kate Wicker

#eating-disoders #hunger #longing #soul #starving

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#clothed #cold #every #fed #final

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. ↗

— Thomas Tusser

#hunger #make #medicine #sauce #thy

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#among #children #food #hunger #insecurity

To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#agree #became #china #competition #could

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change. ↗

— Al Gore

#american #american values #basic #betrayed #change

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. ↗

— Heraclitus

#god #hunger #night #peace #summer

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#century #child #darkness #degradation #great

Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much you ate indicated the quantity of your desire. Walter was also implying that how quickly you got your food revealed the likelihood of achieving your goals. She was in fact terribly hungry, but she'd pretended to be otherwise to be ladylike and had moved away from the table to be agreeable, and now she'd continue to be hungry" (Free Food For Millionaires, p.92.) ↗

— Min Jin Lee

#hunger #women #food