Hunger

Hunger

Hunger is the physical sensation of desiring food. Even the highly privileged sometimes experience mild hunger; brief experiences of the condition are not usually harmful. When politicians, relief workers and social scientists talk about people suffering from hunger, they usually refer to those who are unable to eat sufficient food to meet their basic nutritional needs for sustained periods of time.

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Famous quotes containing the word hunger:

    “the hunger of this poem is legendary
    it has taken in many victims
    back off from this poem
    it has drawn in yr feet
    back off from this poem
    it has drawn in yr legs”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    “poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished—”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “They said they were an-hungry; sighed forth proverbs—
    That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
    That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
    Corn for the rich men only.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)