Jackson Browne Quotes

Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

The free press is good on major disasters like classic famines, but it tolerates chronic hunger as much as anyone else.

We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

I don't care if I starve.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

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.

Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia for so long, it would be stupid not to be sensitive to the risk of such things occurring. But there has not been a famine on our watch - emergencies, but no famines.

People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

In ten years of struggle and travail that beggar description, in ten years of suffering almost beyond human endurance, we have witnessed the indifference with which all Europe and even our brothers of the north have remained but passive spectators to our anguish.

He's gone around the country stirring up apathy.

People are dying in this country. I am begging, begging anyone that can hear us, to save us from dying. If anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying and you are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy... This is what we got last night: four pallets of water, three pallets of meals, and 12 pallets of infant food — which, I gave them to the people of Comerio, where people are drinking off a creek. So I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell. We are dying here. And I cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out the logistics for a small island of 100 miles by 35 miles. So, mayday, we are in trouble.

I don't really care about capitalizing on momentum.

With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.

For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.