It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the…

The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they are extremely…

— Thomas Pogge

A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or…

— Thomas Pogge

To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the…

— Thomas Pogge

Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and…

— James Hansen

Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.

— Thomas Pogge

In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn't free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of childhood poverty…

— Bernie Sanders

“African presidents and governments have failed to take care of their own people. They have failed to create opportunities, empower citizens, and provide sufficient jobs.…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and…

— Jacob Zuma

We should condemn as unjust a global economic order that leads to ever-increasing economic disparities - provided this effect is foreseeable and provided it…

— Thomas Pogge

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern.…

— Wayne Dyer

“One would hope that if the world woke up to such a reality, it would swiftly acknowledge and respond to the disaster—but tragically, the…

— Gary A. Haugen

Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

Cubans are a people who suffered from capitalism in the cruelest way, in the social order, the economic order and the political order.

— Alejandro Castro Espin

We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

— Adolf Hitler

Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political…

— Rudolf Rocker