Famine Quotes

206 Famine quotes by 177 unique authors

People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events… — Terry Pratchett
If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could… — Paul McCartney
I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing… — Christopher Marlowe
It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies… — Hilary Mantel
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation… — Kofi Annan
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the… — Alfred Russel Wallace
The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance. — Hawa Abdi
Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining… — Amanda Lindhout
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by… — Nancy Gibbs
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer. — John Wesley Powell
When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. — Mo Ibrahim
So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced. — Joseph Hume
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation… — Zebulon Pike
The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be… — Thomas Francis Meagher
We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China… — Gary Locke
The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was… — Mstislav Rostropovich
Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might… — Jeff Goodell
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors… — Samantha Power
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal… — Henry Miller
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all… — Bible
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all… — George Bernard Shaw
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into… — Bible
Jah watches over those who obey him, those who trust in his constant love. Jah saves them from death and keeps them alive in times… — Tirelo Answer Phokane

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