The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague,… — James G. Frazer 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
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
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
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes 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
“Cromwell's punitive expedition marked a watershed in Irish history. An estimated 40 percent of the Irish population died either in the war… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years priests, rabbis and muftis explained that humans cannot overcome famine, plague and war by their own efforts. Then… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa,… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
As soon as Mr. Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities at the rate of ten million dollars… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry… — William Henry Chamberlin 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
“export of food from Ireland during the famine: 430,000 tons of grain in 1846 and 1847, the two worst years. “The Almighty… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out… — Martin Parr 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
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine.… — Flea Copy Share Image
If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat.… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how… — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence… — Piers Morgan Copy Share Image
The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
“I couldn't remember the cats' names any better than the dogs'. Four of them were named after the Horsemen of the Apocalypse,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“So it’s our fault.” “Yes. Like everything else. War. Famine. Bad hair.” “Wait. Bad hair?” Shallan blew a lock of it out… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If you lived in 18th-century England, you probably lived in a village, worked on the land, and your greatest fears were probably… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When we talk about famine, people start listing, as I have, its many different elements. We must not let the complexity of… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain,… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
We still live in a world of such gross injustice and inequality, that only privileged people like ourselves can afford to think… — Massimo Pigliucci 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 are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
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