56 Famine Quotes for You to Enjoy

Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers. James Buchan

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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. John Wesley Powell

Prayer Dance Changed Drought Come Climate Years Famine Flood

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. Jonathan Dimbleby

Heart First Destroyed Out Emperor Terrible Because Got Were Coverage Heard Denying Famine Ethiopia Even Engraved Film Credibility

In Bollywood, it's always feast or famine for an actress. That's the way of the game. Kalki Koechlin

Game Way Feast Always Famine Bollywood Actress

A huge famine hit North Korea in the mid-1990s. Ultimately, more than a million North Koreans died during the famine, and many only survived by eating grass, bugs, and tree bark. Lee Hyeon-seo

There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also been part of my experience there. It's not just war and famine all the time. Lynn Nottage

Life War Time Experience Way About Triumphant Write Had Part Also Been Continuity Going Just Africa Famine Include

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. Matt Ridley

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They that die by famine die by inches. Matthew Henry

Die Famine Inches

Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia for so long , it would be stupid not to be sensitive to the risk of such things occurring. But there has not been a famine on our watch - emergencies, but no famines. Meles Zenawi

Long Stupid Our Would Would-Be Emergencies Risk Havoc Been Famine Sensitive Ethiopia Such Things Things Watch

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. Muhammad Yunus

Famine emerges from a lack of interlocal trade; when one locality's food crop fails, since there is virtually no trade with other localities, the bulk of the people starve. It is precisely the permeation of the free market throughout the world that has virtually ended this scourge of famine by permitting trade between areas. Murray Rothbard

Food People World Free Other Starve Virtually Market Locality Crop Emerges Area Free Market Throughout Between Fails Since Trade Bulk Scourge Ended Precisely Lack Famine

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. Nancy Gibbs

Life War People Farm Earthquake Spent Out Photographer City Most His Camps Refugee Famine Want James Flattened Swallowed Places Avoid Professional Village Professional Life Flood Zone

I think humanitarians really feel very awkward and embarrassed about marketing, but it really doesn't matter whether a shampoo gets better marketing. It does matter when a famine or a huge crisis is - oh - well, I hate to use the word 'marketed' better but, you know, is publicized in a way that will be more effective. Nicholas Kristof

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When you're both actors, it is feast or famine financially and emotionally in your marriage. Nicola Walker

You Marriage Financially Feast Both Emotionally Famine Your Actor

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. Nikki Giovanni

Eat Like End Up Going Artists Famine

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. Norman Borlaug

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I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine. Nostradamus

Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief. Nostradamus

Ireland never lacked the capacity to feed its people. During the entire 'great famine,' the island continued to produce massive amounts of beef and grain. The Irish just couldn't afford to buy any of it due to the enforcement of rack-renting, high taxation, and suppression of manufactures. Robert Zubrin

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Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy. William Shawcross

Writing World Response Easy About Talking Very Famine

Conflict and callous politics drive famine. Winnie Byanyima

Politics Conflict Drive Callous Famine

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