Famine Quotes

206 Famine quotes by 177 unique authors

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
The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars,… — Frank Borman
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question:… — George R. R. Martin
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. — Douglas William Jerrold
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was… — Henry David Thoreau
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away… — Theodore Parker
In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury… — Bo Lozoff
I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of… — Mark Lynas
There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease. — Komla Dumor
No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering.… — Edgar S. Brightman
The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science… — Shimon Peres

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