Born Quote by Jose Mujica

One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in…

— Mother Teresa

All too easily I have had people dismiss food poverty as an affliction of the workless and idle, insinuating that it is a way…

— Luciana Berger

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to…

— George Eliot

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question…

— Kathy Acker

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of…

— Peter Joseph

It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated into such…

— Alice Waters

Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they…

— B. F. Skinner

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the…

— Angela Davis

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive…

— Pope John Paul II

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless…

— Vironika Tugaleva

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and…

— Seneca the Younger