17 Quotes on Famine

• 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.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• 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.

  Author: Charles Trevelyan

• A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

  Author: Cat Stevens

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

  Author: Josh Schwartz

• 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.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• 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.

  Author: Zebulon Pike

• 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.

  Author: Barack Obama

• The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

  Author: Thomas Meagher

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

  Author: Joseph Hume

• They that die by famine die by inches.

  Author: Matthew Henry

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

  Author: Nikki Giovanni

• 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.

  Author: Dorothy Day

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

  Author: Chelsea Clinton

• 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.

  Author: Jung Chang

• 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Norman Borlaug

• 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.

  Author: Norman Borlaug

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