Famine Quotes

206 Famine quotes by 177 unique authors

Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to… — Michael Ruppert
In a world threatened by a famine of righteousness and spiritual starvation, we have been commanded to sustain the prophet. As we give heed to,… — Carol F. McConkie
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries… — Bertrand Russell
The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In… — Charles S. Maier
Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the… — Lance Morrow
Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean… — Joseph Stalin
Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English… — George Orwell
...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms? — Winston Churchill
- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it… — Joseph Stalin
Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle… — Leon Trotsky
I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic,… — James Mace
At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take steps now to… — Joseph Stalin
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy… — Sean O'Casey
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and… — Vladimir Lenin
For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat,… — Jo Nesbo
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for… — B.K.S. Iyengar
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and,… — Jean Giraudoux
On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when… — Peter Kreeft
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the… — Eric Temple Bell
In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each… — Ronald Reagan
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

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