Amber Rudd Quotes

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.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

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.

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

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

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.

I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.

No one in the country is actually starving.

[Starving] women, children, the elderly, they don’t know anything about four-party talks. They want to eat. They want to live.

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

A huge famine hit North Korea in the mid-1990s. Ultimately, more than a million North Koreans died during the famine, and many only survived by eating grass, bugs, and tree bark.

Too many children and adults go hungry every day.

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

At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

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

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

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?

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

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.

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

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.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.