Some cites:

"While the apple is on the tree it grows and becomes sweeter,
when it decides it is ripe, it falls from the tree and begins to rot."

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
-Kurt Vonnegut

"God is dead." -Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead." -God
"The dead don't speak." -Django

Starvation death toll (each year): ~8,7 millions.
WW II death toll: ~55-70 millions.