Famine Quotes

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.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

We can solve world peace and world famine.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

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

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

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

Battles are followed by years of famine.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.

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

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.

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread.

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.

No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

if you say!"A woman is A problem"Gentleman, "Probably you have never seen her sweeter part

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

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

People are dying of starvation and famine.And you have a MASSERATTI!

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

As long as poverty & hunger is prevalent in any continent or country, then the world at large is never safe.