Effort Quote by Amartya Sen

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

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

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

“Famine isn’t unique to humans. All species are subject to it everywhere in the world. When the population of any species outstrips its food…

— Daniel Quinn

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

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

— David Hepworth

“The British tended to base their refusal to intervene in famines with adequate governmental measures on a combination of three sets of considerations: free…

— Shashi Tharoor

“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

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

The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there…

— Catherine Bertini

“There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

— Laozi