Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than… — John H Richardson Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A tombstone is memory made concrete. Human memory is the ladder on which a country and a people advance. We must remember… — Yang Jisheng Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You cant win many elections… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
True to form, many of the people who desire to frustrate God's purposes of giving mortal tabernacles to His spirit children through… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use on-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying… — Josette Sheeran Copy Share Image
Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
“Ireland was a different place after the famine. The population was drastically reduced—an island of 8.2 million people in 1841 was reduced… — Ryan Hackney Copy Share Image
England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Famine emerges from a lack of interlocal trade; when one locality's food crop fails, since there is virtually no trade with other… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and… — Gary Frank Copy Share Image
There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The greatest cause of famine and its attendant diseases in the world is not poor agricultural practices or poor economic and political… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Like Joseph storing up grain during the years of plenty to be used during the years of famine that lay ahead, may… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The possibility of change in North Korea arose from its greatest calamity - the famine in the 1990s, in which over a… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue,… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
![“When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.” quote by John H Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1d/john-h-richardson-38485_animal_when-you-see-someone-dying-in-front-of-y_1998991.jpg)
