Quotes about World Poverty

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes! Votes: 2

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation. Votes: 2

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known. Votes: 2

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers. Votes: 2

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. Votes: 2

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism. Votes: 2

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom. Votes: 2

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots. Votes: 2

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism. Votes: 2

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty. Votes: 2

I'd worked at the World Bank briefly as an undergrad and studied poverty levels around the world - particularly those earning less than $1.25 a day. Votes: 2

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. Votes: 2

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap. Votes: 2

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. Votes: 2

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. Votes: 2

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. Votes: 2

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world. Votes: 2

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Votes: 2

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. Votes: 2

We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other. Votes: 2

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world. Votes: 0

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education. Votes: 0

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world. Votes: 0

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy. Votes: 0

My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty. Votes: 0

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty. Votes: 0

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque. Votes: 0

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape. Votes: 0

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S. Votes: 0

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty. Votes: 0

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. Votes: 0

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty. Votes: 0

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. Votes: 0

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. Votes: 0

In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism. Votes: 0

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. Votes: 0

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. Votes: 0

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. Votes: 0

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule. Votes: 0

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist. Votes: 0

Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough. Votes: 0

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty. Votes: 0

If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool. Votes: 0

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. Votes: 0

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world. Votes: 0

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful. Votes: 0

Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated? Votes: 0

Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free. Votes: 0

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do. Votes: 0

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair. Votes: 0

That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry. Votes: 0

In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual. Votes: 0

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation. Votes: 0

Educated and productive young people are needed to help #‎ LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world. Votes: 0

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on. Votes: 0

The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development. Votes: 0

Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue. Votes: 0

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime Votes: 0

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it. Votes: 0

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning. Votes: 0

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there. Votes: 0

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed. Votes: 0

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster. Votes: 0

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease. Votes: 0

America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. Votes: 0

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them! Votes: 0

Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more riches for a few. Votes: 0

The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge. Votes: 0

No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us. Votes: 0

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do Votes: 0

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies. Votes: 0

If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians. Votes: 0

It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty, unemployment: I am a committed citizen. Votes: 0

The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries of the world. Votes: 0

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better. Votes: 0

We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world; when our stomachs are full of delicious food; the fighters must feel the poverty not imagine it. Votes: 0

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years. Votes: 0

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life. Votes: 0

You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better. Votes: 0

We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world Votes: 0

In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century, Votes: 0

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant. Votes: 0

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized. Votes: 0

While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics. Votes: 0

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half. Votes: 0

Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream. Votes: 0

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers. Votes: 0