Famine Quotes

206 quotes by 180 authors

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,… — Thomas Jefferson
All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his… — Charles Dickens
Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. — Horatius Bonar
Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm afraid he might… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime,… — James A. Garfield
It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that… — Paul McCartney
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which,… — Thomas Malthus
You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the… — Al Gore
Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind — Rajendra K. Pachauri
When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will… — Niccolo Machiavelli
War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the… — Eric Pianka
Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and… — Horatius Bonar
For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part. — George MacDonald
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to… — Aberjhani
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide,… — Adrienne Rich
If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century, — Bruno Le Maire
It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years, — Russell Brand
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I… — Piers Morgan
There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics. — Piers Morgan
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. — Peter Straub

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