Famine Quotes

206 Famine quotes by 177 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue. — Chuck Palahniuk
The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had come… — Unknown Author
England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should… — Stanley Baldwin
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite… — Douglas Adams
As soon as Mr. Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities at the rate of ten million dollars a week for… — Eustace Mullins
If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't… — Robert M. Sapolsky
The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in… — Jean Dreze
In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a… — Harry Mulisch
Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full. — Unknown Author
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there… — George R. Stewart
There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life. — Mother Teresa
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal,… — Barbara Tuchman
True to form, many of the people who desire to frustrate God's purposes of giving mortal tabernacles to His spirit children through worldwide birth control… — Ezra Taft Benson
God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has dried up. God… — Mansur Al-Hallaj
Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those… — Ezra Taft Benson
Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since… — Art Donovan
AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases… — Nelson Mandela
Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end… — Dawna Markova
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe. — Chanakya

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