People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
— BanksyThis is the body's nurse; but since man's witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill'd with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence.
— John Davies of HerefordBehjet 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 BowIf you say!'A woman is A problem'Gentleman, 'Probably you have never seen her sweeter part.
— Qalandar NawazNo man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.
— Woodrow WilsonFamine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.
— Mokokoma MokhonoanaYou erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy.
— Jalaluddin RumiNews 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 trading center with his raving eyes and snatch cakes and Fantas from their stalls. No one ever took them away because his hands were always so filthy. The mad people had always depended on others to care for them, but now there were none. Beni Beni died at the church.
— William KamkwambaHere are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet. - Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
— Michael DorrisThe most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical processes and the invention of new ones, accompanied by an even more remarkable development of old and new means of locomotion and intercommunication. By this rapid and vast multiplication of the commodities and conveniences of existence, the general standard of comfort has been raised, the ravages of pestilence and famine have been checked, and the natural obstacles, which time and space offer to mutual intercourse, have been reduced in a manner, and to an extent, unknown to former ages. The diminution or removal of local ignorance and prejudice, the creation of common interests among the most widely separated peoples, and the strengthening of the forces of the organisation of the commonwealth against those of political or social anarchy, thus effected, have exerted an influence on the present and future fortunes of mankind the full significance of which may be divined, but cannot, as yet, be estimated at its full value.
— Thomas Henry Huxley