Top Famine Quotes
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.
Jung Chang
So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.
Joseph Hume
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.
Margaret Sanger
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.
Goldwin Smith
They that die by famine die by inches.
Matthew Henry
Martin Heidegger 
Jung Chang 
Norman Borlaug 
Cat Stevens 
Adam Schiff 
Margaret Sanger 
Josh Schwartz 
Zebulon Pike 
Goldwin Smith 
Barack Obama All Famine Quotes
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.
Adam Schiff 
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We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
Nikki Giovanni
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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...?
Adrienne Rich
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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.
Dorothy Day
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A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
Cat Stevens
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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.
Muhammad Yunus
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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.
Barack Obama
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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.
Zebulon Pike
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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.
Martin Heidegger
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