Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease. — Samuel Eto'o Copy Share Image
No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor. — 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
“Famine was a dirty bitch with rotten fangs, but the hunger she put in a belly bit sharp nonetheless.” — Teresa Frohock Copy Share Image
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — Amartya Sen 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
When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. — Mo Ibrahim 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
The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of… — Norman Davies 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
Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the… — Lance Morrow 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
Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat… — Art Donovan Copy Share Image
When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations,… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and… — Kofi Annan 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
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
“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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
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 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
“A local phrase book, entitled Speak in Korean , has the following handy expressions. In the section 'On the Way to the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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 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
Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When you're both actors, it is feast or famine financially and emotionally in your marriage. — Nicola Walker Copy Share Image
I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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
Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty. — Akong Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.” — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
