“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
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
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
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
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
A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters… — Tom Brown, Jr 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
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
Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Men!" "At least we don't fake it." "Listen, it was your uncle. And we were late, remember? So I made the sacrifice… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“A vast charitable effort swung into action in order to head off widespread famine: a lecture tour of the United States undertaken… — Neil Hegarty Copy Share Image
During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it),… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
France was given up to fire and bloodshed, she experienced famine, she experienced the worst of things, she was nearly chopped up… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
“Your eyes meet and you immediately feel yourself shriveling under his gaze. He bears a scale in one hand and appears to… — Daniel Keidl Copy Share Image
The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible… — Mark Lynas 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
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
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
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
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
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 glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country… — Anonymous 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
- 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
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
