If you lived in 18th-century England, you probably lived in a village, worked on the land, and your greatest fears were probably… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“So it’s our fault.” “Yes. Like everything else. War. Famine. Bad hair.” “Wait. Bad hair?” Shallan blew a lock of it out… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When we talk about famine, people start listing, as I have, its many different elements. We must not let the complexity of… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain,… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat.… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
“You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
We still live in a world of such gross injustice and inequality, that only privileged people like ourselves can afford to think… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine.… — Flea Copy Share Image
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence… — Piers Morgan Copy Share Image
How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how… — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
“I couldn't remember the cats' names any better than the dogs'. Four of them were named after the Horsemen of the Apocalypse,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part… — Jean Dreze Copy Share Image
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
We should take a lesson from the Irish potato famine: monocultures are vulnerable. Monocultures of any kind are very vulnerable, because one… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years priests, rabbis and muftis explained that humans cannot overcome famine, plague and war by their own efforts. Then… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“export of food from Ireland during the famine: 430,000 tons of grain in 1846 and 1847, the two worst years. “The Almighty… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“Cromwell's punitive expedition marked a watershed in Irish history. An estimated 40 percent of the Irish population died either in the war… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful.… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague,… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a… — Chrissie Wellington Copy Share Image
Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
