{"quotes":[{"text":"Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["art","beggar","begging","homeless","homelessness","hunger","mastery","poverty"],"id":1849,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["calling","choices","death","die","greed","hunger","hungry","materialism","meaning","mission","purpose","selfish","starve","superficiality","value"],"id":2241,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this is a picture about love. Filial love. The old man has been condemned by the Roman senate to die of hunger, and his daughter has come to his prison cell and offered her breast to feed him. This has nothing to do with with the decorous love or amorous passions one is more accustomed to seeing in a painting. It is raw and wretched and demeaning. In the end, we are physical bodies and every abstract notion about love sinks beneath this fact.","author":"Debra Dean","tags":["body","daughter","father","hunger","love","starvation","weakness"],"id":8237,"author_id":"Debra+Dean"},{"text":"Young ladies ... Who fall in love, never consider whether there is sufficient 'to make the pot boil' - probably because young ladies in love lose their appetites, and, not feeling inclined to eat at that time, they imagine that love will always supply the want of food.","author":"Frederick Marryat","tags":["hunger","love","poverty","reality","riches","wealth"],"id":8440,"author_id":"Frederick+Marryat"},{"text":"By defining the problem as 'hunger,' the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.","author":"Janet Poppendieck","tags":["emergency-food-programs","hunger","inequality","poverty"],"id":10136,"author_id":"Janet+Poppendieck"},{"text":"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["hunger","nationalism "],"id":10592,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"Coca cola and McDonalds is spreading. Just like hunger and poverty.","author":"Tim Goossens","tags":["coke","cola","hunger","mcdonalds","poverty"],"id":11263,"author_id":"Tim+Goossens"},{"text":"Towards the end of the season it is not bad to have the body. To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less.","author":"Jorie Graham","tags":["body","hunger","joy"],"id":12684,"author_id":"Jorie+Graham"},{"text":"Not all feeling of butterflies in the tummy means love, it might sometimes mean lust, fear, hunger e.T.C.","author":"Jesustibab","tags":["butterflies","fear","hunger","love","lust"],"id":12724,"author_id":"Jesustibab"},{"text":"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["conferences","hunger","poor","poverty"],"id":14549,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":292,"pages":30,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}