Famine Quotes

206 quotes by 177 authors

Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest… — Jonathan Kozol
So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and… — Lee Strobel
We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice… — Frederick Lenz
If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work.… — Susie Orbach
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. — Chelsea Clinton
Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do. — Jackson Browne
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer. — Nikolai Gogol
No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff. — Mark Z. Danielewski
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine,… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red… — Lenny Henry
The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will… — Catherine Bertini
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever. — William Osler
There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor… — Will Rogers
Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in… — Will Rogers
The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a world of poverty,… — Chrissie Wellington
In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about… — Saul Bellow
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of… — Henry Louis Gates
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we… — Dorothy Day
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of… — Terry Eagleton

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