George Orwell Quotes

We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.

It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.

Without land, we are condemned to death. No one will accept that. Families will fight. We prefer to die rather than live without land.

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

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

Rapid Global population growth is an urgent and substantial threat to international stability and sustainable development. This Presidential Decision Directive articulates objectives for and guides the implementation of United States policy on population growth.

It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.

Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

Unless we cut the world population there is no way to avoid violence. People are hungry, people are starving, dying. When somebody is hungry he is going to steal. When somebody is dying, what does he care if he kills somebody else and gets money to survive? - because lust for life is the basis of all biological growth. A man can do anything to survive.

We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.

There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.

The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number of working poor, struggling to survive, who don't have enough money to put adequate food on the table. We must find a solution to this ever-increasing problem - and quickly.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.