God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. — Peter Straub 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
No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture. — Arundhati Roy 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
There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease. — Komla Dumor Copy Share Image
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of… — Charles Trevelyan Copy Share Image
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons… — Leonard Cohen 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
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
Remember that in any major nuclear war, the first strike destroys the country that attacks; it's been known for years. The first… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The main cause of North Korea’s recent social change is actually a tragic one: the famine of the mid 1990s, in which… — Daniel Tudor 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 and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon… — Eric Pianka Copy Share Image
“Tell me about it. Despite all the changes in the twenty-first century, it seems that the rich are still rich and the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The Great Famine is a period of our history that we need to know in great detail in order to understand its… — Mary Robinson 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
“I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years, — Russell Brand 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
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
African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, till famine cling thee.” — William Shakespeare 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
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is… — William Osler Copy Share Image