Famine Quotes

206 quotes by 177 authors

I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, weâ€™ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we donâ€™t believe in the… — Caitlin Moran
When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to… — Rob Bell
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. — Amartya Sen
No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press. — Amartya Sen
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — Amartya Sen
A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief. — Cat Stevens
The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India… — Alison McGhee
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… — Norman Borlaug
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… — Norman Borlaug
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries… — Norman Borlaug
After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine,… — Nostradamus
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly,… — Goldwin Smith
There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be. — Walter Duranty
Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new… — William Henry Chamberlin
Battles are followed by years of famine. — Laozi
What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth.… — Victor Serge
Global warming is a justice issue. It's a justice issue because global warming is theft - theft from our own children and grand children, of… — Fred Small
The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of… — P.J. O'Rourke
The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the… — Unknown Author
Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of… — Bertrand Russell

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