Louise Fresco Quotes

There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages

Louise Fresco

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• Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Want
  • Always
  • Hunger

• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • World
  • Powerful

• If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mind
  • Creative
  • Hunger

• 'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Games
  • Everyone
  • Hunger

• The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Die
  • Win
  • Hunger

• We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Children
  • Know
  • Hunger

• I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Good
  • Family
  • Army

• It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Food

• Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Poverty
  • Hunger

• I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

  

  Becky G
  • Life
  • Fans
  • Hunger

• Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Much
  • Feed
  • Trolls

• Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Dog

• Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.

  

  Lactantius
  • May
  • Food
  • Hunger

• He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life, Has business.

  

  William Cowper
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Business

• I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Kill
  • Rip

• Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Instinct

• Why shouldn't I profit from it? I didn't ask to be in this position ... I would like to feed my daughter.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Daughter
  • Feed

• Hopefully, I want to play a little better than I did today.

  

  Padraig Harrington
  • Today
  • Want
  • Play

• I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.

  

  R. T. Rybak
  • Father
  • Death
  • Night

• I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • American
  • Try
  • Appearance

• I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?

  

  Walter Brennan
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages

  

  Louise Fresco
  • Hunger
  • Feed
  • Shortages