People ask, “Why is there poverty in the world?” It’s a…

“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing…

— James Wolfensohn

“In the process Paul laid out a comprehensive theory of poverty, of a world designed by the elites of all nations to serve their…

— Tracy Kidder

“There’s no difference between slavery and poverty in this world.”

— Kayla Cunningham

It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the…

— Edward de Bono

In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10 years to…

— Óscar Arias

“If we want to stop poverty in the world, education is the key!”

— Nina52

The day something good happens to me is the day poverty in the world ends, fuck the world.

— Anonymous

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

— Martin Luther

There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic primary education.

— Craig Kielburger

The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal.…

— Pope Francis

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and…

— Simon Mainwaring

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to…

— Pope Francis

Today is International Women's Day, and there's a fantastic set of pieces running by an organization called ONE called "Poverty Is Sexist." It's a…

— Melinda Gates

It's not racist to say we can't take in the poverty of the world.

— Marine Le Pen