Peter Singer Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Good Life, Believe

• Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

  Peter Singer

  Needs, Poverty, States

  Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

• We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

  Peter Singer

  Knowing, Needs, World

  "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

• Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Malaria, Disease

  "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

• We certainly would resolve the problems of the charities that are working in areas where they can do the most good. So if you consider that the U.S. foreign aid budget is 30 billion, yes, we could make a major contribution to reducing global poverty, start to deal much better with some of the other big environmental problems that the world faces. So I think we could solve a lot of problems.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Environmental, World

  Source: www.npr.org

• There are many cases in which gifted children have done great things without special school programs. There are also gifted kids who have been to special schools and achieved nothing that has benefited the world as a whole. Without solid evidence, I have no confidence that funding school programs for the intellectually gifted would do more good than the most cost-effective programs to help people in extreme poverty.

  Peter Singer

  Children, School, Kids

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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