Amber Rudd

Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should also look hard at what else can be done earlier on. It is not the lack of food but the fact that some people cannot get access to the food that causes the famine.

British Politician

Don McCullin

I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.

British Photographer

Leonard Cohen

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

Canadian Singer

Flea

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

Australian Musician

Muhammad Yunus

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.

Economist

Barack Obama

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

American President

Margaret Sanger

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

American Activist

Adam Schiff

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

American Politician

Adrienne Rich

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

American Poet

William Shawcross

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

British Writer

Emphasizes the severity and widespread impact of the food shortage on a population.

Scale of Crisis

Often associated with war, drought, or disaster, leading to humanitarian aid responses.

Humanitarian Context

Famines can be historical markers, usually associated with tragedies and past suffering.

Historical Events

Indicates a widespread food crisis in a specific area or country, larger than local hunger.

Geographical Scope

Famine is often paired with additional hardships, like poverty and displacement.

Associated Conditions

Indicates a lack in a non-food context, for emphasizing the absence of something.

Figurative Use

Used metaphorically to describe a severe lack of non-physical needs or resources.

Metaphorical Meaning

Stresses an extreme shortage, stronger than just a lack or absence.

Emphasizing Scarcity

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