Famines Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due… — David Attenborough
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of… — Ludwig von Mises
I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in… — Amartya Sen
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which,… — Thomas Malthus
You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the… — Al Gore
The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars,… — Frank Borman
No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering.… — Edgar S. Brightman
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
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
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. — Amartya Sen
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
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
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
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
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
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
But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to… — John Irving
[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties… — Amartya Sen
Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine… — Mark Twain

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