Quotes about Famine (161 quotes)

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief. Votes: 5

Cat Stevens

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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 and turbulent character of the people. Votes: 5

Charles Trevelyan

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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. Votes: 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. Votes: 4

Chelsea Clinton

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While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. Votes: 4

Jung Chang

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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 human life is no longer a thing to be wasted. Votes: 4

Margaret Sanger

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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. Votes: 4

Norman Borlaug

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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 are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world. Votes: 4

Dorothy Day

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The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace. Votes: 4

Norman Borlaug

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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 camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. Votes: 4

Martin Heidegger

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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 human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. Votes: 4

Terry Eagleton

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They that die by famine die by inches. Votes: 3

Matthew Henry

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Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships. Votes: 3

Alexis Tsipras

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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense Votes: 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death Votes: 3

Robert Asprin

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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do. Votes: 3

Jackson Browne

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The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw. Votes: 3

Norman Davies

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Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man. Votes: 3

Theodore Parker

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Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen. Votes: 3

Richelle Mead

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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 be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more. Votes: 3

Jeff Goodell

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Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate. Votes: 3

Richard Rohr

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One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness Votes: 3

Robert McNamara

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Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917 it seemed to be set until the end of time. No wonder everyone dreamed of an apocalyptic intervention. Votes: 3

Philip Jenkins

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A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb; By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd, Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest. Votes: 3

Tom Brown, Jr.

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Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them. Votes: 3

Neil Gaiman

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The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance. Votes: 2

Hawa Abdi

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We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. Votes: 2

Nikki Giovanni

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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. Votes: 2

Amartya Sen

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There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics. Votes: 2

Piers Morgan

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Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer. Votes: 2

John Wesley Powell

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Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles. Votes: 2

George Orwell

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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 no heat. Votes: 2

Mstislav Rostropovich

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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 the economists. Votes: 2

Ludwig von Mises

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From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows. Votes: 2

Charles Darwin

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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, disease, war and famine. Votes: 2

Adam Schiff

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Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. Votes: 2

Eric Temple Bell

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There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still. Votes: 2

Goldwin Smith

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There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school. Votes: 2

Piers Morgan

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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...? Votes: 2

Adrienne Rich

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Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean when we say that the nationalist question, is actually, the farmers' question. Votes: 2

Joseph Stalin

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During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago Votes: 2

Norman Borlaug

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During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. Votes: 2

Norman Borlaug

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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 where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. Votes: 2

Barack Obama

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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. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees. Votes: 2

Robert Winston

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I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation. Votes: 2

Muhammad Yunus

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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 export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say? Votes: 2

Xi Jinping

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Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips. Votes: 2

Art Donovan

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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. Votes: 2

Flea

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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 in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what? Votes: 2

Leonard Cohen

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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 - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse. Votes: 2

David Attenborough

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So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed. Votes: 2

Lee Strobel

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I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past. Votes: 2

Matt Ridley

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Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard purebred evil and is easily recognized even by moral neophytes. Other malignities-drugs in America, famine in Africa and everything in the Middle East-are more complex. When combating those evils people sometimes have trouble deciding whom to shoot. Votes: 2

P. J. O'Rourke

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It's feast or famine in showbiz. Votes: 0

Joan Rivers

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Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread. Votes: 0

George Herbert

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Battles are followed by years of famine. Votes: 0

Laozi

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Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full. Votes: 0

David Wong Louie

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Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine. Votes: 0

Richard Cecil

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Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Votes: 0

Horatius Bonar

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You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger. Votes: 0

David Sedaris

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Even in times of famine, we have more than enough to eat. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be. Votes: 0

Walter Duranty

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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine. Votes: 0

Banksy

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[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine. Votes: 0

Amartya Sen

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Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd. Votes: 0

John Milton

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She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture. Votes: 0

Arundhati Roy

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Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty. Votes: 0

Akong Rinpoche

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No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff. Votes: 0

Mark Z. Danielewski

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The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined. Votes: 0

William E. Gladstone

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If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century, Votes: 0

Bruno Le Maire

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Jehovah-Jireh is a Great provider. Even in times of famine, we have enough to eat. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. Votes: 0

Amartya Sen

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Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind Votes: 0

Rajendra K. Pachauri

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So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced. Votes: 0

Joseph Hume

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There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease. Votes: 0

Komla Dumor

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No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press. Votes: 0

Amartya Sen

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There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. Votes: 0

Peter Straub

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Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine. Votes: 0

Josh Schwartz

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I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless. Votes: 0

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine. Votes: 0

Peter Singer

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Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. Votes: 0

Douglas William Jerrold

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It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years, Votes: 0

Russell Brand

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He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe. Votes: 0

Chanakya

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The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine. Votes: 0

Laozi

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Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever. Votes: 0

William Osler

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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer. Votes: 0

Nikolai Gogol

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The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences. Votes: 0

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part. Votes: 0

George MacDonald

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When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong. Votes: 0

Joel Osteen

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Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine. Votes: 0

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine! Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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The only legitimate excuse you could have for having a baby in those dire, war torn, famine struck conditions - would be to eat it. Votes: 0

Doug Stanhope

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There has also been a change--a slippage--in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas. Votes: 0

John F. Kennedy

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Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India. Votes: 0

Jean Dreze

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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 somewhere. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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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 from famine. Votes: 0

Zebulon Pike

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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 have stepped in. Votes: 0

Samantha Power

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Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death. Votes: 0

James A. Garfield

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what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish. Votes: 0

William S. Burroughs

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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, pestilence and death. Votes: 0

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

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In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them. Votes: 0

Jean Giraudoux

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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 even help arrange it. Votes: 0

Will Rogers

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Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair? Votes: 0

John Adams

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Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war. Votes: 0

Robert McNamara

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But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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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 Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death. Votes: 0

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

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I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad. Votes: 0

Hilda Doolittle

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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm afraid he might just ask me the same question. Votes: 0

Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide? Votes: 0

Adrienne Rich

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I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine. Votes: 0

Khaled Hosseini

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For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..." Votes: 0

Bee Dawson

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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration. Votes: 0

Walter Savage Landor

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There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist. Votes: 0

Tony Blair

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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one? Votes: 0

Tertullian

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You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor's credibility. Votes: 0

Jonathan Dimbleby

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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 be famine but how many people will actually die. Votes: 0

Catherine Bertini

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Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed. Votes: 0

Horatius Bonar

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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 breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters. Votes: 0

Hilary Mantel

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There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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... it is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance ... Votes: 0

Christine de Pizan

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After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen Votes: 0

Nostradamus

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The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats. Votes: 0

James G. Frazer

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I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine, and disease in the decades ahead. Votes: 0

Mark Lynas

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