There is no bad food in a famine.
In times of famine no bread is stale.
Abundance does not spread; famine does.
Gluttony has killed more people than famine has.
People who have bread to eat do not appreciate the severity of a famine.
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
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.
Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.
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?
Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.
The aristocrats had to force them to do their jobs. After all, human beings are not badgers. We aren't molded to stoop.
In famine, a focus on women and children highlights biology: here is a mother who cannot feed her child, a breakdown in the natural order of life. This focus obscures who and what is to blame for the famine, politically and economically, and can lead...
It's feast or famine in showbiz.
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
They that die by famine die by inches.
Now begin Famines of thought and feeling.
Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.
A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
That comes to about one hundred million people in India alone from 1947 to 1980. But we don’t call that a crime of democratic capitalism. If we were to carry out that calculation throughout the world… I wont even talk about it. But Sen is correct...
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
