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Famine Quotes by Amartya Sen
- I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in…
- From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
- No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.
- No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
- Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties…
More Famine Quotes
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough
- Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new… — James Buchan
- The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan
- We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons… — Leonard Cohen
- I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser
- We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of… — Terence McKenna
- Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white.… — Cornel West
- The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;… — William Hazlitt
- I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their… — Mark Twain
- The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and… — Kofi Annan