Quotes about Famine

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News came of Beni Beni, the madman of Wimbe, who'd always made us laugh in better times. He'd run up to merchants in the — William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
Papa, why are you selling our goats? I like these goats.""A week ago the price was five hundred, now it's four hundred. — William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
Dr. Kim couldn't remember the last time she'd seen a bowl of pure white rice. What was a bowl of rice doing there, just — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food. — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed eve — Michael Dorris, Rooms in the House of Stone: The "Thistle" Series of Essays
. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources, an — Bill Mollison
This is the body's nurse; but since man's witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and — John Davies of Hereford
If we could change just one thing in time, what would we change?WARS, so that we could learn by our mistakes?FAMINE, so — Anthony T. Hincks
No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach. — Woodrow Wilson, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Vol. 1
Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly — Hyeonseo Lee
That comes to about one hundred million people in India alone from 1947 to 1980. But we don’t call that a crime of democ — Noam Chomsky, Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews
I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In — Kang Chol-Hwan, The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me:You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond that o — Annalee Newitz, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, — Elie Wiesel
Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop - — Erin Bow, Plain Kate
Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization. — Richard Manning, Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization