Food Quote by Murray Rothbard

Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other items. The…

— Amber Rudd

Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one…

— Amartya Sen

“Famine isn’t unique to humans. All species are subject to it everywhere in the world. When the population of any species outstrips its food…

— Daniel Quinn

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

— David Hepworth

“Mass famines still strike some areas from time to time, but they are exceptional, and they are almost always caused by human politics rather…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than…

— Amartya Sen

Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should also look…

— Amber Rudd

“There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary,…

— Michel Chossudovsky

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

— Howard Graham Buffett

Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the…

— William Henry Chamberlin

“Famines are not natural disasters. Famines are man-made. Droughts happen from time to time. But in this century, for any drought to metastasize into…

— Jeffrey Gettleman