Hunger Quotes - 32 Sayings About World Hunger

Are you looking for inspiring Hunger quotes in the fight against the unjust global food situation? Then you've come to the right place - because here you'll find many rousing sayings about the social problem of the World Hunger. Every ten seconds, a child under the age of 5 dies as a result of hunger.₁ Inspirational quotes and sayings can help bring about greater awareness of this global challenge in our society.

That's why I'm going to introduce you to 32 hunger quotes that are sure to get yourself and many other people thinking about global famine. Let's go!

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The Best Quotes Against World Hunger

So, let's not waste so much inspirational time at all. Here are valuable quotes about hunger that you can use to build a stronger social consciousness about world hunger.

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Hunger Quotes #1-10

1. "You can't build peace on empty stomachs." (Norman Ernest Borlaug)
2. "A hungry man is not a free man." (Adlai Ewing Stevenson)
3. „Hunger und Liebe sind die Triebkräfte aller menschlichen Handlungen.“ (Anatole France)
4. „Die Gesellschaft setzt sich aus nur zwei großen Klassen zusammen: die einen haben mehr Mahlzeiten als Appetit, die anderen weit mehr Appetit als Mahlzeiten.“ (Nicolas Chamfort)
5. „Wenn du einen verhungernden Hund aufliest und machst ihn satt, dann wird er dich nicht beißen. Das ist der Grundunterschied zwischen Hund und Mensch.“ (Mark Twain)
6. „Wir leben auf Kosten der dritten Welt und wundern uns, wenn das Elend anklopft.“ (Gregor Gysi)
7. "Money cannot satisfy hunger, but on the contrary it is the reason for hunger. Where there are rich people, everything is expensive." (Martin Luther)
8. "The best spice in the world is hunger; and since the poor do not lack it, eating always gives them pleasure." (Miguel de Cervantes)
9. "Love never dies of want, but often of indigestion." (Ninon de Lenclos)
10. "Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice." (Jacques Diouf)

Hunger Quotes #11-20

11. "He who is full will never understand a hungry man." (Proverb)
12. "Hunger is the mother of anarchy." (Herbert Hoover)
13. "In other words, hunger, pestilence, thirst, and other poverty-related local conflicts destroy almost as many men, women, and children each year than World War II did in six years. For the people of the Third World, World War III is undeniably in full swing." (Jean Ziegler)
14. "Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel." (Mahatma Gandhi)
15. "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." (Mother Teresa)
16. "Hunger makes a thief of any man." (Pearl S. Buck)
17. "They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor." (Tupac Shakur)
18. "There are people in the world who are so hungry that God can only appear to them in the form of bread." (Mahatma Gandhi)
19. "We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry." (Jimmy Carter)
20. "We live in a crazy world: people die of hunger, but lapdogs die of obesity." (Norman Mailer)

Hunger Quotes #21-32

21. "An empty stomach is a bad advisor." (Albert Einstein)
22. "The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation." (John F. Kennedy)
23. "Satiety, like any other power, always contains a certain amount of impudence, and this manifests itself chiefly in the satiety giving lessons to the hungry." (Anton Chekhov)
24. "The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not for everyone's greed." (Mahatma Gandhi)
25. "We know that it is possible for us multinational companies to feed even 15 billion people in the world if we take the right actions." (Helmut O. Maucher)
26. "You're never sad enough to make the world a better place. You get hungry again too soon." (Elias Canetti)
27. "There are two kinds of rats, the hungry and the full." (Heinrich Heine)
28. "It is not an art to be an honest man when you have soup, vegetables and meat to eat every day." (Georg Büchner)
29. "World agriculture could easily feed 12 billion people. That means a child who dies from hunger is a murdered child. (Jean Ziegler)
30. "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." (Lao Tzu)
31. "Crime in England is rarely the result of sin. It is nearly always the result of starvation." (Oscar Wilde)
32. "For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?" (Khalil Gibran)

Was versteht man unter Hunger?

Als Hunger bezeichnet man den körperlichen Zustand, der aus einem Mangel an Kalorien und Nährstoffen entsteht. Diese sind notwendig, um die Gesundheit und das Wohlbefinden zu dauerhaft erhalten. Außerdem ist Hunger auch das Gefühl, das auftritt, wenn der eigene Körper signalisiert, dass er Nahrung benötigt.

Warum hungern Menschen obwohl es genug zu Essen gibt?

Verteilungsprobleme, Armut, Kriege und Konflikte, wirtschaftliche Instabilität as well as ineffiziente Agrarsysteme und Ernährungsgewohnheiten der Menschen (vor allem Fleischkonsum) verhindern oft, dass Lebensmittel die Menschen erreichen, die sie am dringendsten benötigen.

Außerdem beeinflussen Handelsbarrieren und politische Entscheidungen die Verfügbarkeit von Nahrungsmitteln in verschiedenen Teilen der Welt.

Warum knurrt der Bauch, wenn man Hunger hat?

Das Knurren des Bauches (auch als Borborygmi bekannt) tritt auf, wenn Magen und Darm leer sind. Die Geräusche entstehen schlussendlich durch die Bewegung von Gasen und Flüssigkeiten in den Verdauungswegen. Wenn keine Nahrung vorhanden ist, um diese Geräusche zu dämpfen, sind sie besonders laut.

Using Hunger Quotes In The Fight Against World Hunger

Now you have a cornucopia of powerful, effective sayings and quotes against world hunger at your fingertips. Worldwide, more than 800 million people go hungry. And around 2 billion suffer from malnutrition.₂ According to estimates by the World Food Organization, however, at the same time 1.3 billion tons of the food produced worldwide is thrown away every year.₃ We in the industrialized nations have an influence on this distribution problem every day. Each individual can, for example, make a conscious contribution to the Reduction of food waste make a positive difference.

Therefore, use the hunger quotes to generate attention to the global social problem of famine. Because even if the global population is growing steadilyToday, it is possible to feed all the people on our planet₄ so that no one would have to go hungry.

Stay sustainable,

PS: In my Nutrition blog you'll get a lot more inspiration for an environmentally conscious diet. For example, in a crisp article, you'll learn why and how you can Become a vegetarian should.

References:
₁,₂ Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e. V.: HUNGER: DISTRIBUTION, CAUSES & CONSEQUENCES, available at https://www.welthungerhilfe.de/hunger. [28.03.2020].

₃ Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e. V.: Hunger: extent, prevalence, causes - The most frequently asked questions on the topic (as at: 15.07.2019). https://www.welthungerhilfe.de/fileadmin/pictures/ publications/en/fact_sheets/topics/2016_factsheet_hunger.pdf. [28.03.2020].

₄ MMCD NEW MEDIA GmbH: Sustainable World Food Works, available at https://www.scinexx.de/news/biowissen/nachhaltige-welternaehrung-funktioniert. [28.03.2020].