Famine Quotes

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

“One man's famine makes another man's feast.”

— Ray Kroc

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed.

— Horatius Bonar

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

— David Hepworth

“Kings were always the last to feel the famine.”

— James S.A. Corey

They that die by famine die by inches.

— Matthew Henry

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

— Alexis Tsipras

Conflict and callous politics drive famine.

— Winnie Byanyima

“And this famine was as purely a product of oversize brains as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Famine was a dirty bitch with rotten fangs, but the hunger she put in a belly bit sharp nonetheless.”

— Teresa Frohock

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

— Amartya Sen

...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

— Winston Churchill

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.

— Joseph Hume

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

— Hawa Abdi

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

— Cat Stevens

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

— Amartya Sen

Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a…

— Terry Eagleton

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

Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other…

— Amber Rudd

“In the famine children saw their parents die and then went to live with the people on the other side. In their…

— Paulette Jiles

I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death theydie, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the…

— Anonymous

But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we…

— Bible

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

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

Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I…

— Charlotte Bronte

We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this…

— Frederick Lenz

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or…

— Florence Nightingale

Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan…

— Frank McCourt

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important…

— Anonymous

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

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

If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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

“The New Testament speaks of “a great famine all over the world” that took place in the reign of emperor Claudius (Acts…

— Brian Godawa

“For social pathologies like the Great Purges, there are no fully satisfactory explanations. Every individual knows that he is powerless, an actual…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments…

— Emma Goldman

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,…

— Henry Miller

“Famine isn’t unique to humans. All species are subject to it everywhere in the world. When the population of any species outstrips…

— Daniel Quinn