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
No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here. — Jimmy Doolittle 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
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. — Peter Straub 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
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
“upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, till famine cling thee.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Bankruptcy and repudiation are the spring-boards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation… — John Wesley Powell 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
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
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
“Our addiction to just two crops has made us the fattest people who've ever lived, dining just a few pathogens away from… — Barbara Kinsolver Copy Share Image
In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough 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
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
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
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
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
“As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me: You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the one named War has gone - at least for a while. But Famine, Pestilence… — Herbert Hoover 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
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
“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
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
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
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
There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease. — Komla Dumor 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
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
The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just… — Charles S. Maier Copy Share Image
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself… — William Shakespeare 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
“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
