#famine

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

— Joseph Hume

#famine #inconvenience #now #plan #price

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food. ↗

— Criss Jami

#considerate #consideration #environment #experience #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. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#country #dying #economist #famine #felt

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. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#famine #future #human #in the past #instead

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. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#constant #continual #developing #famine #fear

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

— Chelsea Clinton

#everyone #everything #famine #had #i

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. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#arms #eating #famine #fighting #money

This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense, More bodies are consumed and kill'd with it Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence. ↗

— John Davies of Hereford

#eating #famine #food #meat-is-murder #pestilence

Sometimes I ask God what I did to deserve her love. I maintain my innocence, and of all the forms of God’s wrath from plagues, pestilence, and famine, her love is by far the cruelest.
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— Jarod Kintz

#famine #god #innocence #love #pestilence

Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop - not even hay." The rain. The rain she'd been so grateful for, the rain that concealed the warping of her shadow. It was going to kill people. ↗

— Erin Bow

#guilt #natural-disaster #rain #realization #unnatural-disaster