Active Quote by Amartya Sen

The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life…

— Jean Dreze

If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You can’t win many elections after a…

— Amartya Sen

Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one…

— Amartya Sen

Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should also look…

— Amber Rudd

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

— Amartya Sen

Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the…

— William Henry Chamberlin

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

— Amartya Sen

“Mass famines still strike some areas from time to time, but they are exceptional, and they are almost always caused by human politics rather…

— Yuval Noah Harari

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop…

— Amartya Sen

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But lets remember that, despite being a poor country, Indias…

— Alex Tabarrok

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor country, India's…

— Alex Tabarrok

When we talk about famine, people start listing, as I have, its many different elements. We must not let the complexity of the subject…

— Amber Rudd