“ 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- Copy
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“ Its's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people. ”
- Bob Geldof- Copy
- 506
“ He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists. ”
- Ludwig von Mises- Copy
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“ We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. ”
- Nikki Giovanni- Copy
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“ Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Out of the chill and the shadow, Into the thrill and the shine; Out of the dearth and the famine, Into the fullness divine. ”
- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster- Copy
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“ Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. ”
- E. T. Bell- Copy
- 560
“ In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. ”
- Douglas William Jerrold- Copy
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“ I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive — like famine victims. ”
- Dana Hatch- Copy
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“ Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving? ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally — as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing — if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ There was no corn — in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales — and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior… jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior. ”
- Florence Nightingale- Copy
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“ Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had to learn they were white. An Irish peasant coming from British imperial abuse in Ireland during the potato famine in the 1840s, arrives in the United States… ”
- Cornel West- Copy
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