2012, Yangon University Speech (November 2012)
Context: It's not enough to trade a prison of powerlessness for the pain of an empty stomach. But history shows that governments of the people and by the people and for the people more powerful in delivering prosperity.
“There is no subordination with empty stomachs.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
As attributed in Count Emmanuel de Las Cases, “Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena”, 1824.
Attributed
“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
From the writings of William Cowper Brann (1855 – 1898), known as Brann the Iconoclast. http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=zc6W3a68NsoC&pg=PA60&dq=%22patriot+on+an+empty%22+inauthor:Brann&as_brr=0&sig=an5LOns0MG1gg4C2x7VNE1HdeuI <br class="br">Misattributed
“Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.”
Kin Hubbard (1868–1930) cartoonist
From Abe Martin's "Short Furrows" http://books.google.com/books?id=uUUoAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Nobuddy+ever+listened+t+reason+on+a+empty+stomach%22&pg=RA3-PA16#v=onepage, The American Magazine, February 1913.
“You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.”
Norman Borlaug (1914–2009) American biologist
From "Eat This!", an episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit!; Quoted in: Gary Beene (2011) The Seeds We Sow: Kindness that Fed a Hungry World. p. 9
Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Source: Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
“Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.”
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
"On Books"
The Silence of the Sea (1940)
