Feasts' antitheses

Usage examples of famines.

And the harm they have done to mankind is infinitesimal when compared to the horrors—the bloodshed, the wars, the persecutions, the confiscations, the famines, the enslavements, the wholesale destructions—perpetrated by mankind's governments.

Poisonous rain comes from the sky, gardens wither, crops are destroyed, famines begin, new religions take hold, ravenous crazy mobs swarm toward the sea.

Amid the famines, amid the panics, amid the cries of new prophets and self-appointed new kings and emperors?

There was no way to connect the plagues and sickness and famines to events occurring in Rome and Maam Cross, Ireland, but all my instincts told me there had to be a link, and that we would soon know what it was.

But all of this is swept aside by Fromm—along with the famines, the plagues, the exhausting labor from sunrise to sunset, the suffocating routine, the superstitious terror, the attacks of mass hysteria afflicting entire towns, the nightmare brutality of men's dealings with one another, the use of legalized torture as a normal way of life—all of this is swept aside, so entranced is Fromm by the vision of a world in which men did not have to invent and compete, they had only to submit and obey.

Sure, we have some time on the Northern Hemisphere famines, but it’s already early summer in these places.

We look out of our golden windows and feel pity for the scenes of blood and blades, of plagues and famines that are played out in the surrounding country.

If we started rationing right now, it would mean that the devastating famines would begin in twenty years instead of six.

I am asking him to learn a degree of empathy for other races that would not become a serious force in human life until nearly five hundred years after his great voyage, and did not prevail worldwide until many bloody wars and famines and plagues after that.

These had originated about a century earlier in Italy, when various plagues and famines convinced the Italians that God wanted them to show repentance, and took the form of pilgrimages in which people walked naked to the waist, beating themselves with whips or scourges tipped with metal studs.

Another ten million died as a result of the famines that swept the country between 1931 and 1933 because of collectivisation.

But stringent new measures were applied, along the lines Wood had envisioned, and future famines were greatly eased, with relatively small percentages of mortality.

But periodic famines continued as population outran the food production, and remain a problem today.

You declare to your children that it is rational to loot, to torture, to enslave, to expropriate, to murder, but that they must resist the temptations of logic and stick to the discipline of remaining irrational—that skyscrapers, factories, radios, airplanes were the products of faith and mystic intuition, while famines, concentration camps and firing squads are the products of a reasonable manner of existence—that the industrial revolution was the revolt of the men of faith against that era of reason and logic which is known as the Middle Ages.

That land, Sudan, was also invaded by tiny countries, conquered because they fought within themselves and could not stand united against invaders… British, French, that spawned wars with Muslims in the name of Christ that created bloodshed and famines and genocides in the millions up to present days—but the connection to Addis Ababa was briefly forged that stopped civil war for a time.