World Poverty Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Heart, Two, Matter

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in - you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we're going to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.

  Ian Mcewan

  Girl, Song, Thinking

  "Saturday". Book by Ian Mcewan, 2005.

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• Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.

  Martin Sheen

  Pain, Emotional, Common Humanity

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• 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.

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• Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Brother, New York, Ideas

  "Filmgoers flock to anti-Obama doc" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 24, 2012.

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• 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.

  Paul Romer

  World, Lasts, Poverty

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• Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

  Banksy

  Smile, Art, Graffiti

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

  Arundhati Roy

  Colonialism, Mutants, World

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.183, Haymarket Books

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• In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Envy, World, Poverty

  Giovanni Boccaccio (1972). “The Decameron”, Penguin Books

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• Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.

  Banksy

  Smile, Art, War

  "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall". Book by Banksy, 2001.

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• 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.

  Kofi Annan

  Dream, Relief, Debt

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• People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Country, Years, People

  Pope Benedict XVI, Catholic Church. Pope (2005- : Benedict XVI) (2006). “Insegnamenti di Benedetto XVI”

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• It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.

  Thomas Pogge

  Population, World, Today

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Mason Cooley

  Poverty, Tin, World

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• 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.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cancer, Weather, Space

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