Famine Quotes

206 Famine quotes by 177 unique authors

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do. — Jackson Browne
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer. — Nikolai Gogol
No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff. — Mark Z. Danielewski
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine,… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red… — Lenny Henry
The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will… — Catherine Bertini
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever. — William Osler
There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor… — Will Rogers
Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in… — Will Rogers
The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a world of poverty,… — Chrissie Wellington
In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about… — Saul Bellow
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of… — Henry Louis Gates
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we… — Dorothy Day
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of… — Terry Eagleton
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination… — Martin Heidegger
They that die by famine die by inches. — Matthew Henry
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not… — Xi Jinping
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world… — Barack Obama
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and… — Margaret Sanger
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty,… — Adam Schiff
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. — Joseph Stalin
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse… — Charles Trevelyan
I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I… — Ayelet Waldman
Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine.… — Robert Winston

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