--- title: "25 Famines Quotes by 17 authors" description: "Browse 25 Famines quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best Famines sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f2/jane-b-reece-86021_malnutrition_malnutrition-and-famines-are-common-in-s_2435217.jpg" --- > [“Malnutrition and famines are common in some regions, but they result mainly from unequal distribution rather than adequate production, of food.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-b-reece/malnutrition-and-famines-are-common-in-some-regions-but-they-result/) [Jane B. Reece](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-b-reece/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f2/jane-b-reece-86021_malnutrition_malnutrition-and-famines-are-common-in-s_2435217.jpg) > [“There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/there-are-no-longer-natural-famines-in-the-world-there-are-only-2/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f06/yuval-noah-harari-100_nature_there-are-no-longer-natural-famines-in-t_2162449.jpg) > [You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/you-can-t-prevent-undernourishment-so-easily-but-famines-you-can-stop/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dce/amartya-sen-2518_effort_you-can-t-prevent-undernourishment-so-ea_2634010.jpg) > [Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/every-one-knew-he-could-foretell-wars-and-famines-though-that-was-not/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb6/mark-twain-22_famine_every-one-knew-he-could-foretell-wars-an_2941577.png) > [From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/from-the-mid-1970s-i-also-started-work-on-the-causation-and/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52e/amartya-sen-2518_causation_from-the-mid-1970s-i-also-started-work-o_2302783.png) > [People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-attenborough/people-talk-about-doom-laden-scenarios-happening-in-the-future-they/) [David Attenborough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-attenborough/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7aa/david-attenborough-2396_doom_people-talk-about-doom-laden-scenarios-h_3113175.jpg) > [But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-irving/but-i-felt-certain-that-if-the-world-would-stop-indulging-wars-and/) [John Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-irving/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5f/john-irving-337_believe_but-i-felt-certain-that-if-the-world-wou_1266517.png) > [Famines were frequent in colonial India and some estimates indicate that 30 to 40 million died out of starvation in Tamil Nadu,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-s-swaminathan/famines-were-frequent-in-colonial-india-and-some-estimates-indicate/) [M. S. Swaminathan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-s-swaminathan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c81/m-s-swaminathan-8457_half_famines-were-frequent-in-colonial-india_756068.jpg) > [Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/famines-occur-under-a-colonial-administration-like-the-british-raj-in/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/503/amartya-sen-2518_administration_famines-occur-under-a-colonial-administr_3147634.jpg) > [If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You can’t win many elections…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/if-the-government-is-vulnerable-to-public-opinion-then-famines-are-a/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17b/amartya-sen-2518_bad-thing_if-the-government-is-vulnerable-to-publi_1146937.png) > [The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-chossudovsky/the-experience-of-somalia-shows-that-famine-in-the-late-20th-century/) [Michel Chossudovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-chossudovsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2c/michel-chossudovsky-29911_20th-century_the-experience-of-somalia-shows-that-fam_430835.jpg) > [“There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/there-are-no-longer-natural-famines-in-the-world-there-are-only/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26c/yuval-noah-harari-100_nature_there-are-no-longer-natural-famines-in-t_358277.jpg) > [ One of the great famines in human history took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. \[At the same time\] Western journalists were… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-friedman/one-of-the-great-famines-in-human-history-took-place-during-the/) [George Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-friedman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d49/george-friedman-7436_china_one-of-the-great-famines-in-human-histor_3063309.png) > [“Mass famines still strike some areas from time to time, but they are exceptional, and they are almost always caused by human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/mass-famines-still-strike-some-areas-from-time-to-time-but-they-are/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce8/yuval-noah-harari-100_politics_mass-famines-still-strike-some-areas-fro_1210887.jpg) > [After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-r-ehrlich/after-the-bomb-we-developed-a-fairly-good-system-for-moving-food/) [Paul R. Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-r-ehrlich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09e/paul-r-ehrlich-13046_attrition_after-the-bomb-we-developed-a-fairly-goo_846821.jpg) > [Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/famines-are-easy-to-prevent-if-there-is-a-serious-effort-to-do-so-and/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/amartya-sen-2518_active_famines-are-easy-to-prevent-if-there-is_1481086.jpg) > [We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-enriquez/we-traditionally-in-this-world-didn-t-have-enough-calories-to-feed/) [Juan Enriquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-enriquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c6/juan-enriquez-10680_asia_we-traditionally-in-this-world-didn-t-ha_1606579.png) > [“People were selling pyramids of oranges from wooden carts. Powdered milk and sacks of grain sat on the shelves of the little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-gettleman/people-were-selling-pyramids-of-oranges-from-wooden-carts-powdered/) [Jeffrey Gettleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-gettleman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e31/jeffrey-gettleman-15142_food_people-were-selling-pyramids-of-oranges_2357611.jpg) > [“Famines are not natural disasters. Famines are man-made. Droughts happen from time to time. But in this century, for any drought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-gettleman/famines-are-not-natural-disasters-famines-are-man-made-droughts/) [Jeffrey Gettleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-gettleman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/863/jeffrey-gettleman-15142_mental-breakdown_famines-are-not-natural-disasters-famine_1190571.jpg) > [“The New Testament speaks of “a great famine all over the world” that took place in the reign of emperor Claudius (Acts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-godawa/the-new-testament-speaks-of-a-great-famine-all-over-the-world-that/) [Brian Godawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-godawa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/000/brian-godawa-43567_famine_the-new-testament-speaks-of-a-great-fami_2610570.jpg) > [I was born at the end of the 1993. The regime stopped giving food to the people. Three million people died from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/park-yeon-mi/i-was-born-at-the-end-of-the-1993-the-regime-stopped-giving-food-to/) [Park Yeon-mi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/park-yeon-mi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cc/park-yeon-mi-5169_born_i-was-born-at-the-end-of-the-1993-the-re_732650.jpg) > [Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amber-rudd/famines-are-political-we-all-know-that-the-immediate-response-to-a/) [Amber Rudd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amber-rudd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee8/amber-rudd-6779_done_famines-are-political-we-all-know-that-t_48425.jpg) > [“Or he’d watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/or-he-d-watch-the-news-more-plagues-more-famines-more-floods-more/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cb/margaret-atwood-40_kindlehighlight_or-he-d-watch-the-news-more-plagues-more_1873468.jpg) > [The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/the-redundant-population-necessarily-occasioned-by-the-prevalence-of/) [Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e74/thomas-malthus-7621_children_the-redundant-population-necessarily-occ_957442.jpg) > [I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it),…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/i-attempted-to-see-famines-as-broad-economic-problems-concentrating/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/amartya-sen-2518_broads_i-attempted-to-see-famines-as-broad-econ_2429148.png) ## Top authors on Famines - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-amartya-sen-12176.jpg) Amartya Sen 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/famines/amartya-sen/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/famines/#itemlist", "name": "Famines Quotes", "numberOfItems": 25, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Malnutrition and famines are common in some regions, but they result mainly from unequal distribution rather than adequate production, of food.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jane B. 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