While no famine has ever taken place in a democracy, they're the rule rather than the exception in socialist countries. — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image
“According to a 2011 Gallup poll, the more money you have, the more likely you are to suffer from time famine.” — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“John Mitchel’s famous declaration that God sent the blight but the English created the Famine.” — Tim Pat Coogan Copy Share Image
If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century, — Bruno Le Maire Copy Share Image
Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do. — Jackson Browne 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“A vast charitable effort swung into action in order to head off widespread famine: a lecture tour of the United States undertaken… — Neil Hegarty Copy Share Image
“Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
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
No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it… — Edgar S. Brightman Copy Share Image
“I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle… — Bennett Madison Copy Share Image
“So what happens if you restrict your cholesterol intake, as so many people do today? The body sends out an alarm that… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
The only legitimate excuse you could have for having a baby in those dire, war torn, famine struck conditions - would be… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means… — Tertullian 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
We've always talked about doing something else and Campbell Scott is always busy and I'm always busy. But when we came up… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not… — Catherine Bertini Copy Share Image
