Amartya Sen Quotes

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

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

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.

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

Hunger's a great spur.

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

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

No one in the country is actually starving.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

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

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

Too many children and adults go hungry every day.

When we talk about famine, people start listing, as I have, its many different elements. We must not let the complexity of the subject put us off. We must continue putting our efforts into prevention.

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

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.

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.