--- title: "7 Percent Quotes By Thomas Pogge" description: "7 Percent quotes by Thomas Pogge. Plus more from Thomas Pogge and more Percent sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fba/thomas-pogge-7757_elites_the-bank-and-the-media-continue-to-propa_1381073.jpg" --- > [The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/the-bank-and-the-media-continue-to-propagate-the-story-that-the/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fba/thomas-pogge-7757_elites_the-bank-and-the-media-continue-to-propa_1381073.jpg) > [A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/a-few-hundred-years-ago-perhaps-85-or-even-90-percent-of-humanity/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2d/thomas-pogge-7757_affluent_a-few-hundred-years-ago-perhaps-85-or-ev_1446927.jpg) > [The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/the-bottom-quarter-of-the-human-population-has-only-three-quarters-of/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/897/thomas-pogge-7757_average_the-bottom-quarter-of-the-human-populati_1635233.jpg) > [The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/the-collective-shortfall-of-the-3-08-billion-people-47-percent-of/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/805/thomas-pogge-7757_billions_the-collective-shortfall-of-the-3-08-bil_1704014.jpg) > [Over the period from 1988 to 2005, the income share of the top five percent has grown by about 3.5 percent of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/over-the-period-from-1988-to-2005-the-income-share-of-the-top-five/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a93/thomas-pogge-7757_bottom_over-the-period-from-1988-to-2005-the-in_2332368.jpg) > [Given the total income and wealth available in the world today, we could easily overcome poverty, which would require raising the share…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/given-the-total-income-and-wealth-available-in-the-world-today-we/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc2/thomas-pogge-7757_available_given-the-total-income-and-wealth-availa_2807675.jpg) > [The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/the-collective-income-of-all-these-people-the-bottom-half-is-less/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdc/thomas-pogge-7757_bottom_the-collective-income-of-all-these-peopl_3211418.jpg) ## Other authors on Percent ## More by Thomas Pogge > [I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/i-think-that-many-citizens-understand-how-our-system-works-or-rather/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/the-massive-corruption-common-in-so-many-developing-countries-would/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [What we should do is require or at least permit innovators to license their green innovations free of charge in exchange for public payments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/what-we-should-do-is-require-or-at-least-permit-innovators-to-license/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [You can get an ice-cold Coke for around fifty cents in most developing countries, not just in the major population centers, but at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/you-can-get-an-ice-cold-coke-for-around-fifty-cents-in-most/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the sad experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/i-think-one-big-improvement-would-be-if-we-somehow-made-it-cheaper/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/purchasing-power-parities-are-not-a-reasonable-method-for-comparing/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [The extremely low respect Congress enjoys among the population indicates that the citizens understand broadly what's going on. But the lack of a realistic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/the-extremely-low-respect-congress-enjoys-among-the-population/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [One citizen, or a few, may be powerless if all the rest are determined to benefit from the imposition of unjust supranational rules. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/one-citizen-or-a-few-may-be-powerless-if-all-the-rest-are-determined/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/severe-poverty-is-getting-better-by-some-measures-but-it-s-also/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [To improve global health, it's not enough just to have a really good new product and to obtain marketing approval. You still need to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/to-improve-global-health-it-s-not-enough-just-to-have-a-really-good/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/we-have-the-ability-now-to-arrange-global-economic-institutions-so/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [Dictatorial regimes often manage to keep themselves in power because they are recognized by foreigners as representing the state and its people, and therefore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/dictatorial-regimes-often-manage-to-keep-themselves-in-power-because/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [Drafts of domestic legislation must be published, debated and publicly voted on, which gives ample opportunities to civil society organizations and ordinary citizens to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/drafts-of-domestic-legislation-must-be-published-debated-and-publicly/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [In the United States there are only two exceptions: banks have to report deposits they suspect to be related to either terrorism or drug…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/in-the-united-states-there-are-only-two-exceptions-banks-have-to/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) > [Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/large-companies-are-very-good-at-solving-extremely-complex-problems/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/percent/thomas-pogge/#itemlist", "name": "7 Percent Quotes By Thomas Pogge", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the number of poor has declined by 24 percent in those 15 years [1990-2005].", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Pogge" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/the-bank-and-the-media-continue-to-propagate-the-story-that-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fba/thomas-pogge-7757_elites_the-bank-and-the-media-continue-to-propa_1381073.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fba/thomas-pogge-7757_elites_the-bank-and-the-media-continue-to-propa_1381073.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fba/thomas-pogge-7757_elites_the-bank-and-the-media-continue-to-propa_1381073.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the…” — Thomas Pogge", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. 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So the ratio between the averages in the top five percent and the bottom quarter is somewhere around 300 to one - a huge inequality that also gives you a sense of how easily poverty could be avoided.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Pogge" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/the-bottom-quarter-of-the-human-population-has-only-three-quarters-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/897/thomas-pogge-7757_average_the-bottom-quarter-of-the-human-populati_1635233.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/897/thomas-pogge-7757_average_the-bottom-quarter-of-the-human-populati_1635233.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/897/thomas-pogge-7757_average_the-bottom-quarter-of-the-human-populati_1635233.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household…” — Thomas Pogge", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. 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