I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
“There's magic in her bones. How can a witchcraft taste so holy at midnight!” — Malak El Siblani Copy Share Image
When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. — Mo Ibrahim 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
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“And this famine was as purely a product of oversize brains as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Skeletal remains taken from various regions of the world dating to the transition from foraging to farming all tell the same story:… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“If there are forty thousand people in an area that can only support thirty thousand, it’s no kindness to bring in food… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second,… — Xi Jinping 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
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
Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed.… — Anonymous 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
“The main cause of North Korea’s recent social change is actually a tragic one: the famine of the mid 1990s, in which… — Daniel Tudor 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
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly… — Neil Gaiman 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
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
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
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
“True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising.… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms… — Amartya Sen 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
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
“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
“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
Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease. — Samuel Eto'o Copy Share Image
The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance. — Hawa Abdi Copy Share Image
