There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we… — Bible Copy Share Image
Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
“In the famine children saw their parents die and then went to live with the people on the other side. In their… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death theydie, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet… — Margaret Catley-Carlson Copy Share Image
Global warming is a justice issue. It's a justice issue because global warming is theft - theft from our own children and… — Fred Small Copy Share Image
The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
“history does not tolerate a vacuum. If incidences of famine, plague and war are decreasing, something is bound to take their place… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence,… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere...… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Rather, when famine, plague or war break out of our control, we feel that somebody must have screwed up, we set up… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Bankruptcy and repudiation are the spring-boards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars,… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense, More bodies are consumed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cant prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why dont the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
“The result was a serious famine between 1994 and 1998 that claimed the lives of between 200,000 and three million North Koreans.” — Daniel Tudor Copy Share Image
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Malone: Me father died of starvation in Ireland in the black 47. Maybe you've heard of it. Violet: The Famine? Malone: No,… — Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea… — Aurelio Peccei Copy Share Image
