Famine Quotes

206 Famine quotes by 177 unique authors

For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster... The Lord has warned us of… — Ezra Taft Benson
For years we have been counseled to have on hand a year's supply of food. Yet there are some today who will not start storing… — Ezra Taft Benson
I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they… — Mother Teresa
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was… — Jung Chang
Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by… — Robert McNamara
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines… — Michel Chossudovsky
These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these… — Kofi Annan
Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round… — Martin Parr
When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong. — Joel Osteen
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
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

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