There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'September1,1939'.

And the children of Israel said unto them,Would to God we had died by thehand of the L in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth to this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDExodus16:3.

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that hemight maketheeknow that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the L doth man live.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDDeuteronomy 8:3.

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke15:16^19.

And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 6:35.

These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and servehimdayand night inhistemple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe awayall tears from their eyes.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 7:14^17.

La mejor salsa del mundo es el hambre. Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

-Cervantes, Miguel de
  Don Quixote, pt.2, ch.5.

You who desired so muchöin vain to askö Yet fed your hunger like an endless task, Dared dignify the labor, bless the questö Achieved that stillness ultimately best, Being, of all, least sought for: Emily, hear!

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  'To Emily Dickinson', in The Nation, 29  Jun.

There's many a one who would be idle if hunger didn't pinch him; but the stomach sets us to work.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Felix Holt, ch.30.

La faim et l'amour sont les deux axes du monde. Hunger and love are the two axes of the world.

-Thibault
  La Vie litte¤  raire, pt.3.

Soldati, io esco da Roma. Chi vuole continuare la guerra contro lo straniero venga con me. Non posso offrigli ne¤ onori ne¤   stipendi; gli offro fame, sete, marce forzate, battaglie e morte. Chi ama la Patria me segua. Soldiers, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, follow me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages, I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me.

-Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Quoted in Giuseppe Guerzoni Garibaldi (1882), vol.1.

Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.

-Langland,William
c.1378   A description of the sin of Envy. Piers Plowman (B text), 'Passus 6,' l.291^4. (pescoddes = pea-pod, fetten = fetched, chibolles = spring- onions, chervelles = chervil, plese with Hunger = please hunger with)

Four spectres haunt the pooröold age, accident, sickness, and unemployment.We are going to exorcise them.We are going to drive hunger from the hearth.We meantobanishtheworkhousefromthehorizonofevery workman in the land.

-Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl
  Speech, Reading,1  Jan.

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. The purpose shall be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

-Marshall, George C(atlett)
  Speech at Harvard, 5  Jun, announcing the European Recovery Plan (ER A) that became known as the Marshall Plan.

The perpetual hunger to be beautifuland thatthirsttobe loved which is the real curse of Eve.

-Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams
  The Left Bank,'Illusion'.

No one ever complains if a great artist says that he was driven to create a masterpiece by a hunger for recognition and money.But a scientist? Well, he ismeant to be disinterested, pure, his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio.

-Self,Will
The QuantityTheory of Insanity and Five Supporting Propositions,'The QuantityTheory of Insanity'.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Barbara Undershaft. Major Barbara, act 2.

   O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen, bk.5, canto12, stanza1.

Weary men, what reap ye?öGolden corn for the stranger. What sow ye?öHuman corpses that wait for the avenger. Fainting forms, hunger stricken, what see ye in the offing? Stately ships to bear our food away, amid the stranger's scoffing. There's a proud array of soldiersöwhat do they round your door? They guard our master'sgranaries from the thin hands of the poor. Pale mothers, wherefore weeping? Would to God that we were deadö Ourchildren swoon before us, and we cannot give them bread.

-Wilde,Jane Francesca ne¤  e Elgee
'The FamineYear'.