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

• 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

• Love comes with hunger.

  

  Diogenes
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

  

  Rumi
  • Life
  • Gratitude
  • Corner

• How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?

  

  Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
  • Hunger
  • Neighbor
  • Satisfy

• Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Water
  • Glass
  • Crystal

• The people from where I grew up have no appreciation for Paleolithic rocks or menstrual calendars. I'm a retriever of lost iconographies. But I had real training and have deep discipline, and I believe in it. Too much of the work I see today is just cultural junk. It's very superficial and has no rigor. It doesn't address the dynamic and real politics of an aesthetic structure.

  

  Carolee Schneemann
  • Work
  • Today
  • Cultural

• Modeling wasn't the thing that was going to define me in any way; it was just a way to make a lot of money.

  

  Michelle Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
  • Money
  • Way
  • Modeling

• 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