Democracy Quote by Frances Moore Lappé

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,

— Frances Moore Lappé

Democracy is just a word when the people are starving.

— Immortal Technique

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

— Pete Domenici

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no…

— John F. Kennedy

I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of…

— Anna Lappe

poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

— W. S. Gilbert

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

— Amartya Sen

When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must…

— Y. C. James Yen

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we…

— Indira Gandhi

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more…

— Edmund Burke

Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva