Shimon Peres Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters.

  Shimon Peres

  Religious, Science, Drug

• Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

  Shimon Peres

  Ocean, Mean, Opportunity

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Pere, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

• The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.

  Shimon Peres

  Winning, Uprising, Israel

• The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

  Shimon Peres

  Middle East, Poverty, Problem

  "Israeli President Shimon Peres Applauds Hollywood's Influence on Youth" by Tina Daunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 9, 2012.

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