John Boyd Orr

“We must conquer hunger and want, because hunger and want are the seeds of war.”

“Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.”

“You can't build peace on empty stomachs.”

“If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.”

“There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population is suffering from hunger.”

“A hungry man is not a free man.”

“The world is now a physical unity. The wonders of science have abolished distance. But there is no moral unity in the world.”

“The problem of food is the problem of peace.”

“The full use of science for human welfare is the only basis for a permanent peace.”

“The one-half of the world cannot be prosperous when the other half is in misery.”

“Science has given us the powers of gods, but we use them like children.”