Hunger And Poverty Quotes

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

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.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never good but through necessity: on the contrary, when good and evil are left to their choice, they will not fail to throw every thing into disorder and confusion. Hunger and poverty may make men industrious, but laws only can make them good; for, if men were so of themselves, there would be no occasion for laws; but, as the case is far otherwise, they are absolutely necessary.

I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.