Famine Quotes
206 quotes by 177 authors
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I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the…
— Caitlin Moran
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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
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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
— Amartya Sen
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No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.
— Amartya Sen
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No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
— Amartya Sen
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A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
— Cat Stevens
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.
— Walter Duranty
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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
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Battles are followed by years of famine.
— Laozi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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