One of the great famines in human history took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. [At the same time] Western journalists were… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries… — Bee Dawson Copy Share Image
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Malone: Me father died of starvation in Ireland in the black 47. Maybe you've heard of it. Violet: The Famine? Malone: No,… — Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Finally having one other person in this world who cares feels like being tossed a scrap of food when you haven’t eaten… — Rebecca Espinoza Copy Share Image
The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?...… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Nay, so great was our famine that a Salvage we slew and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and eat… — John Smith Copy Share Image
When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea… — Aurelio Peccei Copy Share Image
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Its either feast or famine, and thats the way its been for as long as I can remember. Ive spent my whole… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
A huge famine hit North Korea in the mid-1990s. Ultimately, more than a million North Koreans died during the famine, and many… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not… — Catherine Bertini Copy Share Image
It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We've always talked about doing something else and Campbell Scott is always busy and I'm always busy. But when we came up… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
He sank into that kiss, and fed from me like a starving man holding off famine. I drank from his soul in… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“Famines are not natural disasters. Famines are man-made. Droughts happen from time to time. But in this century, for any drought to… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
One of our objectives today is very important for many people, for millions of people on our planet - it is joining… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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