42 Quotes About Famine

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

Historians have pointed out that it is in times of plenty that people feel like going to war. In times of famine they're simply trying to find enough to eat. When they've just enough to go round they tend to be polite. But when a banquet is spread before them, it's time to argue over the place settings.

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

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

Real education starts when you genuinely feel the pain and sufferings of the people and living beings in flood, famine, poverty, disease, exploitation, and hunger. Spirituality begins when you take positive actions to remove that pain and suffering.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

Jehovah-Jireh is a Great provider. Even in times of famine, we have enough to eat.

Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone—but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him.

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread.