"Man can and must prevent the tragedy of……" — Norman Borlaug
"Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past."
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Norman Borlaug
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30 Quotes by Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug has 30 quotes on this site.
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Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but…
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Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
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Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy…
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The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
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Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are…
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Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
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Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
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There are no miracles in agricultural production.
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I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions…
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Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of…
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Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.
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Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right…
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We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves…
— David Attenborough
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
— Leonard Cohen
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I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will…
— Hans Zinsser
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We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the…
— Terence McKenna
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Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they…
— Cornel West
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
— William Hazlitt
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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine…
— Mark Twain
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The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time,…
— Kofi Annan
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