Hunger Quotes - Page 7

• The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Desire, Needs

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

  Edward Abbey

  Doubt, Meals, Sauce

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.140, University of Arizona Press

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• We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

  Edward Abbey

  Two, Giving, Superstitions

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

  Walter Ulbricht

  People, Causes, Misery

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• The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

  B. F. Skinner

  World, Violence, Looks

  B.F. SKINNER (1948). “WALDEN TWO”

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• I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

  Euripides

  Men, Sick, Ease

  Euripides (2012). “The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse”, p.41, tredition

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• I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Flower, Humility, Exercise

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.277, 1895.

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• Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Trying, Dies

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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• I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

  Louise Glück

  Able, Indifference, Presence Of Love

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• It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!

  Sam Kinison

  Moving, People, World

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• True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

  Raymond Queneau

  Stories, True Story, Deals

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• What are most people hungry for? I believe it is spiritual and moral leadership. Increases in technology, scientific inventions, and medical miracles have been marvelous and incredible. But we must use them properly to bring us joy, and that requires spiritual and moral leadership.

  James E. Faust

  Spiritual, Believe, Technology

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• Our awareness of time affects how we think and act. This is illustrated by the story about the clock in a restaurant window. It "had stopped a few minutes past noon. One day a friend asked the owner if he knew the clock was not running. 'Yes,' replied the restaurant man, 'but you would be surprised to know how many people look at that clock, think they are hungry, and come in to get something to eat."' If only there were some kind of divine timepiece that would arouse a spiritual hunger in people!

  James E. Faust

  Running, Spiritual, Past

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• There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  War, Food, Communication

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• When I say 'The Hunger For More', it could be referring to more success. It could be more money, or respect, more power, more understanding. All of those things lead up to that hunger for more, because my more isn't everybody else's more. I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. God forbid anything happen to me, my family is straight. So anything that happens after this is just me progressing as a person.

  Lloyd Banks

  God, Understanding, Progress

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul.

  Tracy Chapman

  Love, Apples, Justice

  Song: All That You Have Is Your Soul, Album: Crossroads, 1989

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• Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred - when women and men can realize their highest potential and live a secure and fulfilling life. Until then, each and every one of us would have to contribute - collectively and individually - to build peace through non-violence.

  Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

  Men, Racism, Hatred

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• Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Work, Home, Poor Education

  "A Prayer for America". Book by Dennis Kucinich, 2003.

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• When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying this is evil, not saying that this is a provocation from the devil. No - no evaluation at all because all valuation belongs to the mind and witnessing is not of the mind. Good, bad - distinctions all belong to the mind, and the witnessing is undivided, one. It is neither good nor bad, it simply is. One pays attention to hunger or to the sex desire, total attention - and total attention is such an energy, it is fire-the hunger simply is burned, the sex desire is simply burned.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Fire, Judging

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• Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal worth attaining is complete freedom to be yourself, without illusions and false beliefs.The past and the future exist only in imagination. Everything you did before has no reality. Everything you will do afterward has no reality. Only the thing you are doing now is real.

  Deepak Chopra

  Being Yourself, Real, Philosophical

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• As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even brief periods of hunger can permanently inhibit a child's mental, emotional and physical growth. Kids who are hungry do poorly in school and are unlikely to grow into productive adults. For families, experiencing hunger means living in a world of isolation and shame. Caring citizens must put an end to this disgrace.

  Ted Danson

  Children, School, Mean

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• I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Sex, Silly

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.238, Open Road Media

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• There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sweet, Buddhist, Heart

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• The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Passion, Disease

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• It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Pain, Ignorance

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