Top 315 Famine Quotes & Sayings

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

Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.

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.

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

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

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.

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

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...?

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

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

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

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?

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

Sweden endured a potato famine like in Ireland and loads of people emigrated to the US.

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

A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [...] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it...materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

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

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

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

Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.

Being a singer, it's feast or famine. You have to hit it when it's hot.

Progress to reduce hunger is being made by tackling both the cause and the consequences of extreme poverty and famine.

Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should also look hard at what else can be done earlier on. It is not the lack of food but the fact that some people cannot get access to the food that causes the 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.

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

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

Orissa is cursed by the two tragic extremes of drought and famine.

With enough money and international coordination, we can push incoming asteroids out of Earth's path. We might even be able to bring back extinct animals in the lab. The problem really isn't scientific - it's cultural. We aren't yet able to coordinate ourselves as a global civilization to do something simple like bring food to a famine-stricken region. We can actually use current satellite technologies to predict where famine will strike next, but we can't get food there - usually for political reasons.

The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had come across, in the 1690s. And they were victims of famine. Over that decade, 30000-50000 people were fleeing from that disaster. In terms of per capita loss, it was of the same order of magnitude as the Irish famine (of the 19th century).

Sports is such a cyclical thing; it's often feast or famine. But what you try and do as an owner is build a winning organization.

It's feast or famine in showbiz.

Conflict and callous politics drive famine.

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

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

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

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

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

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

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

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

Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.

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

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

By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

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

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

There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

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

Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other items. The food famine becomes a symptom of that vast failure.

Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a population affected was the Irish famine of the 1840s, which came close to 10 percent over a number of years.

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

Battles are followed by years of famine.

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.