"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."
— Norman Borlaug
"I send the locusts on the wind, such as the world has never seen, on every leaf on every stalk, until there's nothing left of green!"
— The Prince of Egypt, "The Plagues"
"When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, 'Come!' I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, 'Two pounds of wheat for a day's wages, and six pounds of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!'"
"A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief."
King Koopa: If those cave cretins succeed in growing their own food, I'll never be able to subjugate them.
Cheatsy Koopa: Unless, o regent reptile of repulsiveness, we stole all the crops!
King Koopa: We can start a famine! The cave people will have to come to me for food! It's brilliant! Glad I Thought of It.
Cheatsy Koopa: Unless, o regent reptile of repulsiveness, we stole all the crops!
King Koopa: We can start a famine! The cave people will have to come to me for food! It's brilliant! Glad I Thought of It.
"At my bidding, fertile farmland will no longer be fertile, and all that is growing upon it, will DIE!!!"
— Demeter, Zeus: Master of Olympus
