“We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.” — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Progress to reduce hunger is being made by tackling both the cause and the consequences of extreme poverty and famine. — Tae Yoo Copy Share Image
When you're both actors, it is feast or famine financially and emotionally in your marriage. — Nicola Walker Copy Share Image
When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“And this famine was as purely a product of oversize brains as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat… — Art Donovan Copy Share Image
When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of… — Charles Trevelyan Copy Share Image
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it),… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp,… — Kang Chol-Hwan Copy Share Image
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
In a world threatened by a famine of righteousness and spiritual starvation, we have been commanded to sustain the prophet. As we… — Carol F. McConkie Copy Share Image
“The New Testament speaks of “a great famine all over the world” that took place in the reign of emperor Claudius (Acts… — Brian Godawa Copy Share Image
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“For social pathologies like the Great Purges, there are no fully satisfactory explanations. Every individual knows that he is powerless, an actual… — Sheila Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon… — Eric Pianka Copy Share Image
“Famine was a dirty bitch with rotten fangs, but the hunger she put in a belly bit sharp nonetheless.” — Teresa Frohock Copy Share Image
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance. — Hawa Abdi Copy Share Image
...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms? — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced. — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
