Source: Freedom™ (2010), Chapter 10: Corn Rebellion, Character: Jenna Fossen
“We can’t save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.”
Part II (p. 72)
Earth (1990)
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“We not only saved the world, er, saved the banks...”
" We not only saved the world... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7775515.stm", BBC News, 10 December 2008
Prime Minister
“The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.”
The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=b0kLAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+graveyards+are+full+of+people+the+world+could+not+do+without%22&pg=PA190#v=onepage (May 1907)
Quoted in "They Shall Inherit the Earth" - Page 55 - by Otto Zoff, Anne Garrison - 1943
“When no food is given to the ear,
Then let a little be given to the stomach.”
Verse XLII.2
Tirukkural
“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.”
Plenus venter facile de ieiuniis disputat.
Letter 58
Letters