Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries… — Bee Dawson Copy Share Image
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand.… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get… — Will Rogers 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
As soon as Mr. Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities at the rate of ten million dollars… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa,… — Juan Enriquez 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
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
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
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On… — Michel Chossudovsky 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
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
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
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises 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
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
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
“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
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
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
- 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
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
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
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