Famine Quotes - Page 6

• ¡Qué máquina tan estupenda e incomprensible es el hombre! Que puede soportar el trabajo, el hambre, los azotes, el encarcelamiento y la muerte misma en vindicación de su propia libertad, y al momento siguiente... infligir a sus semejantes una esclavitud, una hora de la cual está cargada de más miseria que siglos de aquello a lo que se levantó en rebelión para oponerse.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hombres, Compasión, Rosa

  Carta a Jean Nicholas Demeunier, 24 de enero de 1786

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• De hecho, el demógrafo Thomas Malthus creía que la única forma de que la población humana se controlara a sí misma era precipitándose hacia una catástrofe, como una pandemia o una hambruna. A veces nos sentimos tan frustrados por la lentitud de los procesos políticos humanos que deseamos que una roca gigante en llamas nos resuelva el problema.

  Annalee Newitz

  Correr, Creer, Rocas

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• GMO agriculture will probably save the world in this century. But in the developed world, where few people are haunted by the specter of famine, people are free to fetishize heirloom tomatoes and worry about the provenance of what sits on their dinner tables.

  Annalee Newitz

  Gmos, Agriculture, Worry

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• La población redundante, necesariamente ocasionada por la prevalencia de los matrimonios precoces, debe ser reprimida por hambrunas ocasionales y por la costumbre de exponer a los niños, que, en tiempos de angustia, es probablemente más frecuente de lo que se reconoce a los europeos.

  Thomas Malthus

  Children, Eugenics, Population

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.63, Penguin UK

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• Well, talking about Ethiopia is like talking about the whole continent. A month ago we played against AIDS and famine. We also played in Dakar. It is not only the music which is playing an important role on this issue of problems affecting Africa, but the activities of doctors, sportsmen and journalists are also helping in various ways.

  Manu Dibango

  Doctors, Talking, Issues

  "Manu Dibango: Expressing His Creativeness Through The Saxophone". Interview with Joel Savage, joelsavage1.wordpress.com. July 5, 2016.

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• The only legitimate excuse you could have for having a baby in those dire, war torn, famine struck conditions - would be to eat it.

  Doug Stanhope

  Baby, War, Excuse You

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• Piensa de verdad, y tus pensamientos alimentarán el hambre del mundo. Habla con sinceridad, y cada una de tus palabras será una semilla fructífera. Vive de verdad, y tu vida será un credo grande y noble.

  Horacio Bonar

  Wisdom, Thinking, Noble

  Horatius Bonar (1867). “Hymns of Faith and Hope. New edition. [Selected from Series 1-3.]”, p.113

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• We've always talked about doing something else and Campbell Scott is always busy and I'm always busy. But when we came up with the idea of doing the potato famine as a hip hop musical, I wanted somebody who was going to bring gravity.

  Denis Leary

  Ideas, Hip Hop, Musical

  Fuente: www.ign.com

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• A lo largo de la mayor parte de nuestra historia, nada -ni inundaciones, hambrunas, plagas o nuevas armas- ha puesto en peligro a la humanidad ni una décima parte de lo que lo ha hecho el ego narcisista, con sus presunciones engreídas y sus engendros infernales de miedo y codicia.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Greed, Humanity

  "La sintaxis de la brujería". Entrevista con Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. 6 de junio de 2012.

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• Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

  Xi Jinping

  Doe, Poverty, Firsts

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• Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.

  Herman Melville

  Judgement, Missionary, Enlightened

  Herman Melville (2006). “Moby Dick, The Whale: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What I've discovered from working with my father is that I'm still learning. I'm just a kid in this business. And I've seen from my father transitioning into being a director, that's where the power lies. And, like he says, it's feast or famine for an actor. If you're not creating your own material, then you're just fighting for whatever's out there. I definitely have the desire to go to the other side.

  Scott Eastwood

  Father, Lying, Kids

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• Sr. Rochester, si alguna vez hice una buena acción en mi vida, si alguna vez tuve un buen pensamiento, si alguna vez recé una oración sincera e irreprochable, si alguna vez tuve un deseo justo, ahora soy recompensada. Ser su esposa es, para mí, ser tan feliz como puedo serlo en la tierra.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Oración, Sacrificio, Expectativas

  "Jane Eyre: Mejorado con un extracto de La loca de arriba".

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• We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the capitalistic experiment. Once we came to understand the simpl...truth that earth's resources were limited, in fact soon to run out, the whole capitalistic illusion fell to pieces. Those of us who spoke this truth were denounced as heretics, as enemies of the prevailing economic faith. Like religious Dissenters of an earlier day.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Running, Religious, Enemy

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• Recuerde que en cualquier guerra nuclear importante, el primer ataque destruye el país que ataca; se sabe desde hace años. El primer ataque de una gran potencia es muy probable que cause lo que se llama invierno nuclear, lleva a una hambruna global durante años y todo básicamente desaparece. Algunos supervivientes rezagados. ¿Podría [Donald Trump] hacerlo? Quién sabe.

  Noam Chomsky

  País, Guerra, Invierno

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• ¿Estás disgustado, amiguito? ¿Has estado despierto preocupándote? Pues no te preocupes... Yo estoy aquí. Las aguas de la inundación se retirarán, el hambre terminará, el sol brillará mañana, y siempre estaré aquí para cuidar de ti.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Friendship, Faith, Lying

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• Men!" "At least we don't fake it." "Listen, it was your uncle. And we were late, remember? So I made the sacrifice and got us there in time for dessert. You should be thanking me." Morelli's mouth was open slightly and his face was registering a mixture of astonished disbelief and wounded, pissed-off male pride. Okay, it wasn't that much of a sacrifice at the time, and I knew he shouldn't be thanking me, but give me a break here... this wasn't famine in Ethiopia

  Janet Evanovich

  Uncles, Pride, Sacrifice

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Eleven on Top”, p.192, Macmillan

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• [N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

  Amartya Sen

  Democracy, Free Press, Majors

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• Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties and independent newspapers, cannot help but make such an effort. Not surprisingly, while India continued to have famines under British rule right up to independence... they disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and... a free press and an active political opposition constitute the best early-warning system a country threaten by famines can have.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Party, Independent

  "The 'Silently' Creeping Famine" by Alemayehu G. Mariam, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2010.

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• He sank into that kiss, and fed from me like a starving man holding off famine. I drank from his soul in preparation for the drought to come. And when he finally pulled away, my throat was thick with unspoken words, my heart heavy with every apology I'd ever denied him. But it was too late for promises. The time had come for goodbye.

  Rachel Vincent

  Goodbye, Heart, Kissing

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Pride”, p.424, MIRA

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• Estamos en un mundo en el que hay hambruna y la gente esquiva balas y le sacan las uñas en las mazmorras, así que me resulta muy difícil valorar el trabajo que hago para escribir una canción. Sí, trabajo duro, pero ¿comparado con qué?

  Leonard Cohen

  Canción, Trabajo duro, Escritura

  "Leonard Cohen: 'All I've got to put in a song is my own experience'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Memories, War, Childhood

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• In the late 1960s, there were alarming predictions that worldwide famine was around the corner. I wondered if humans had already lost the race, overrun the Earth's capacity. I let one question lead to the next, and unearthed information that would forever change my life: Not only is there enough food in the world to feed every man, woman, and child on Earth, there is enough to make us all chubby.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Niños, Hombres, Raza

  Fuente: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Uno de nuestros objetivos de hoy es muy importante para mucha gente, para millones de personas de nuestro planeta: aunar esfuerzos en la lucha contra el terrorismo y otros retos similares: contrarrestar el narcotráfico y la proliferación de armas de destrucción masiva, luchar contra el hambre, preservar el medio ambiente y la biodiversidad, esforzarse por hacer un mundo más predecible, más estable.

  Vladimir Putin

  Lucha, Destrucción Masiva, Gente

  Entrevista con Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. 29 de septiembre de 2015.

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• If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Vegetarianism, Important

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