Hunger Quotes - Page 26

• Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Disease, Supreme

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• Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast even when he's grown up. Therefore you should not try to satisfy your lust by indulging in sins. This will only increase the desire for more sins. The same is the case with the disease of gluttony. The more a person eats, the more his hunger increases.

  Busiri

  Wisdom, Mother, Pain

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• We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health

  Thoraya Obaid

  Issues, Challenges, Environmental

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• 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.

  Riane Eisler

  Our World, Hunger And Poverty, People

  Riane Eisler (2008). “The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics”, p.124, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Forbidden Love, Needs

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

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• A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Long, Noble

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• Back when I was younger,
  Very ambitious, but often blinded by my hunger.
  Some say I dream too big,
  And my dream gon' take me under.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Dream, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: National Anthem, 2010

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• Going around this country, I have found a great hunger in America for spiritual revival; for a belief that law must be based on a higher law; for a return to traditions and values that we once had. Our government, in its most sacred documents - the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and all - speak of man being created, of a Creator; that we're a nation under God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spiritual, Country, Men

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• It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to this struggle, unless we combat hunger with food, fear with trust, suspicion with faith, fraud with justice - and threats with power, nations will surrender to the futility, the hopelessness, the panic on which wars feed.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Fear, War, Struggle

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• Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Country, Baby, Retirement

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• For a man who is lost, the three greatest dangers in order of importance, are Fear, Cold, and Hunger. He may endure extreme hunger for a week, and extreme cold for a day, but extreme fear may undo him an hour. There is no way of guarding against this greatest danger except by assuring him that he is fortified against the other two.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Men, Order, Two

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2016). “Woodcraft and Indian Lore: A Classic Guide from a Founding Father of the Boy Scouts of America”, p.278, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

  Clara Barton

  War, Army, Cities

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• Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Work, Creative

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• Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Feelings

  Chartism ch. 5 (1839)

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• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Loneliness, Hunger For Love, Hunger And Poverty

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Joy, Sorrow, Novelists

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1744, Delphi Classics

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• I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

  Merle Travis

  Sweet, Fruit, Bitterness

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• Jen[nifer Lawrence]'s main goal in life is to get me to laugh while we're filming sad scenes. And it's the HUNGER GAMES.

  Willow Shields

  Games, Goal, Laughing

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• Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use.

  Max Stirner

  Cheer, Air, Order

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• The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet

  Frederick Buechner

  Needs, Done, World

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• Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep and low; it's possible to lose track of it, to forget or fail to perceive how it's emptied everything out of you and made the world papery and thin. Touch starved, you brush against existence like a stick against dry leaves. You become insubstantial yourself, a hungry ghost.

  Hari Kunzru

  Sex, Track, Long

  "My Revolutions". Book by Hari Kunzru, 2007.

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• Love is not sexual intercourse. Love is not vital attraction and interchange. Love is not the heart’s hunger for affection. Love is a mighty vibration coming straight from the One. And only the very pure and very strong are capable of receiving and manifesting it.

  Mirra Alfassa

  Strong, Heart, Love Is

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• Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Irony, Poor

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• Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods. We not only have to suffer hunger but also wind up with perverted cravings because we are nutrient-deficient to boot.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Wind, Suffering, Trying

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• There is no limit to the hunger politicians have for the money you've worked so hard for. ... You can tell them to take a hike, but then the guns come out.

  Neal Boortz

  Gun, Political, Limits

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