Norman Borlaug Quotes

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• Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate…
• Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
• Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the…
• The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
• Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
• Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
• Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
• There are no miracles in agricultural production.
• I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small…
• Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his…
• Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.
• Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born…
• To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that…
• Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
• You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.
• Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
• The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing…
• The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world…
• There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for…
• Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of…

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