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  • The page contains money quotes about hunger, poverty, and money from various historical figures
  • Many of the quotes discuss how hunger and poverty affect people’s ability to think clearly or act morally
  • Several quotes argue that wealth should be used to help those in need rather than be hoarded
  • A few quotes suggest that inequality between the rich and poor can lead to conflict or the rise of dictatorships
  • The quotes come from leaders, writers, and activists from around the world and across history
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread Quote
 

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread” — Mahatma Gandhi

 
 

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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family Quote
 

“My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family” — Dave Grohl

 

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O. Henry Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving quote
 

“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving” — O. Henry

 

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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread Quote
 

“A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread” — Georges Bernanos

 

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if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical Quote
 

“If it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical” — Ron Dellums

 

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We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war - spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build Quote
 

“We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war – spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build” — John Lewis

 

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor Quote
 

“An empty stomach is not a good political advisor” — Albert Einstein

 

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Hunger makes a thief of any man Quote
 

“Hunger makes a thief of any man” — Pearl S. Buck

 

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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach Quote
 

“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt<

 

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Hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness; this is the great poverty Quote
 

“There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much” — Mother Teresa

 

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Poor nations are hungry and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance Quote
 

“Poor nations are hungry and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance” — Jonathan Swift

 

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children Quote
 

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

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The 'trickle-down' theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals Quote
 

“The ‘trickle-down’ theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals” — William Blum

 

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The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless Quote
 

“The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless” — Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II-II, Q 66 A 7

 

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Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold Quote
 

“Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold” — Thomas Jefferson

 

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So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers Quote
 

“So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers” — Suzy Kassem

 

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Education privilege of the rich. Poverty, hunger, disease become inevitable Quote
 

“I have watched education become more a privilege of the rich than the basic necessity that it must be if civilized society is to survive. I have watched as convenience, profit, and inertia excused greater and more dangerous environmental degradation. I have watched poverty, hunger, and disease become inevitable for more and more people.” ― Octavia E. Butler

 

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The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor Quote
 

“The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor” — Basil of Caeserea

 

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God entrusted you with money beyond necessities to relieve the wants of all mankind Quote
 

“Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?” — John Wesley

 

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It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless Quote
 

“It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless” — Masha Gessen

 

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When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor Quote
 

“When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor” — Euripides

 

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People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made Quote
 

“People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

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To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less Quote
 

“To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less” — Oscar Wilde

 

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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist one third rich and two thirds hungry Quote
 

“We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist one third rich and two thirds hungry” — Jimmy Carter

 

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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach Quote
 

“No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach” — Woodrow Wilson

 

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Poor nations are hungry and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance Quote
 

“Poor nations are hungry and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance” — Jonathan Swift

 

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