“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”

— Heinrich Heine

David Lloyd George
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Heinrich Heine61

German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic 1797–1856

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Variant: Love is,” she repeated slowly, looking only at Dasha, “when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry
Source: The Bronze Horseman

“Mr. Chamberlain is right in so far as he says that things are not well in this country. We cannot feed the hungry with statistics of national prosperity, or stop the pangs of famine by reciting to a man the prodigious number of cheques that pass through the clearing-house. We must therefore propose something better than Mr. Chamberlain.”

David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Speech in the House of Commons (6 January 1904)
Backbench MP

“When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ”

Миньон МакЛафлин (1913–1983)

“When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a Communist.”

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist

Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop, as quoted in Peace Behind Bars : A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail (1995) by John Dear, p. 65; this is a translation of "Quando dou comida aos pobres chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres chamam-me de comunista."
Variant translations:
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why are they poor, they call me a Communist.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.
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