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“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.”

“A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.”

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Author:E. W. Howe

“Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.”

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Author:James Earl Jones

“An army marches on its stomach.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.”

Source: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.”

“Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?”

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Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.”

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Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food What can you get by war?”

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Author:Chief Powhatan

“In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.”

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Author:Munia Khan