Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease. — Samuel Eto'o Copy Share Image
African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine. — Josh Schwartz Copy Share Image
“upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, till famine cling thee.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is… — William Osler Copy Share Image
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease. — Komla Dumor Copy Share Image
It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years, — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Your eyes meet and you immediately feel yourself shriveling under his gaze. He bears a scale in one hand and appears to… — Daniel Keidl Copy Share Image
France was given up to fire and bloodshed, she experienced famine, she experienced the worst of things, she was nearly chopped up… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
GMO agriculture will probably save the world in this century. But in the developed world, where few people are haunted by the… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
My opposition to war was not because of the horrors of war, not because war demands that the race offer up its… — Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch Copy Share Image
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men!" "At least we don't fake it." "Listen, it was your uncle. And we were late, remember? So I made the sacrifice… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“Tell me about it. Despite all the changes in the twenty-first century, it seems that the rich are still rich and the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“We are faced with famine in 1974 and people are dying of hunger. When people are dying of hunger, and you are… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“North Korea is a famine state. In the fields, you can see people picking up loose grains of rice and kernels of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“War seems like a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know. Then they get a taste of battle. For… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Famine is good to the corn-merchant, evil to the poor, and indifferent to those whose fortunes can at all times command a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Being a singer, it's feast or famine. You have to hit it when it's hot. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here. — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
