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 FriedanWhen I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Hélder CâmaraTags: compassion food christianity poverty communism charity hunger socialism
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert EinsteinThere are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma GandhiTags: humanity food god religion poverty bread hunger
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
Aldous HuxleyTags: yearning hunger brave-new-world thirst
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
George EliotTags: living wish hunger wishing longing
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
Bertolt BrechtIn the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life
Paul AusterTags: introduction hunger
Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
Richard WrightIf you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.
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