Muhammad Yunus Quotes About Charity

Quotes about: Charity

• Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Business, Museums, Luxury

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.223, PublicAffairs

• This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Inspiration, People, Charity

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". NBR Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

• Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Charity, Poverty, Initiative

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor”, p.283, Penguin Books India

• When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Responsibility, Worry, Use

• We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Charity, Poverty, Rich

  Twitter post from Sep 01, 2011

• People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to poverty. Poverty is the creation of opportunities like everybody else has, not the poor people, so bring them to the poor people, so that they can change their lives.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Opportunity, People, Support

• Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Government, Hands, People

• The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Needs, Charity, Want

  Muhammad Yunus, Alan Jolis (2003). “Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.205, PublicAffairs

• A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Charity, Dollars, Social

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