...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
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
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
Being a singer, it's feast or famine. You have to hit it when it's hot. — Gregory Porter 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are… — Kofi Annan 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
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
“As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me: You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond… — Annalee Newitz 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
“But Parliament cannot see how it is the state's job to create work. Are not these matters in God's hands, and is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the… — Malcolm Muggeridge 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
In Bollywood, it's always feast or famine for an actress. That's the way of the game. — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
“For the increase in the number of my Brennan cousins," Conall remarked dryly, "we must thank the potato.” — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image