--- title: "7 Severe Poverty Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 7 Severe Poverty quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Severe Poverty sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4d/thomas-pogge-7757_becoming_severe-poverty-is-getting-better-by-some_385172.jpg" --- > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4d/thomas-pogge-7757_becoming_severe-poverty-is-getting-better-by-some_385172.jpg) > [To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/to-make-a-proper-moral-appraisal-of-the-prevalence-of-severe-poverty/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1e/thomas-pogge-7757_administrative_to-make-a-proper-moral-appraisal-of-the_1388653.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) > [I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-dyer/i-grew-up-in-an-era-of-pretty-severe-poverty-my-parents-weathered-the/) [Wayne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-dyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4af/wayne-dyer-158_great_i-grew-up-in-an-era-of-pretty-severe-pov_2824815.png) > [“One would hope that if the world woke up to such a reality, it would swiftly acknowledge and respond to the disaster—but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-a-haugen/one-would-hope-that-if-the-world-woke-up-to-such-a-reality-it-would/) [Gary A. Haugen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-a-haugen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4b/gary-a-haugen-48781_basic-human-rights_one-would-hope-that-if-the-world-woke-up_2922690.jpg) > [It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/it-seems-far-fetched-even-preposterous-to-blame-the-global-economic/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a24/thomas-pogge-7757_blame_it-seems-far-fetched-even-preposterous-t_3062704.jpg) > [The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/the-bottom-half-of-humanity-is-living-in-severe-poverty-not-all-of/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3f/thomas-pogge-7757_bottom_the-bottom-half-of-humanity-is-living-in_3067912.jpg) ## Top authors on Severe Poverty - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-pogge-90558.jpg) Thomas Pogge 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/severe-poverty/thomas-pogge/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/severe-poverty/#itemlist", "name": "Severe Poverty Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Pogge" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/severe-poverty-is-getting-better-by-some-measures-but-it-s-also/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4d/thomas-pogge-7757_becoming_severe-poverty-is-getting-better-by-some_385172.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4d/thomas-pogge-7757_becoming_severe-poverty-is-getting-better-by-some_385172.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4d/thomas-pogge-7757_becoming_severe-poverty-is-getting-better-by-some_385172.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is…” — Thomas Pogge", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the global average income was much lower, but on a comparison with what would be possible in our time, given the current global average income and level of technological and administrative development.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Pogge" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/to-make-a-proper-moral-appraisal-of-the-prevalence-of-severe-poverty/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1e/thomas-pogge-7757_administrative_to-make-a-proper-moral-appraisal-of-the_1388653.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1e/thomas-pogge-7757_administrative_to-make-a-proper-moral-appraisal-of-the_1388653.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1e/thomas-pogge-7757_administrative_to-make-a-proper-moral-appraisal-of-the_1388653.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on…” — Thomas Pogge", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "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. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Pogge" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/a-few-hundred-years-ago-perhaps-85-or-even-90-percent-of-humanity/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2d/thomas-pogge-7757_affluent_a-few-hundred-years-ago-perhaps-85-or-ev_1446927.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2d/thomas-pogge-7757_affluent_a-few-hundred-years-ago-perhaps-85-or-ev_1446927.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2d/thomas-pogge-7757_affluent_a-few-hundred-years-ago-perhaps-85-or-ev_1446927.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that…” — Thomas Pogge", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wayne Dyer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-dyer/i-grew-up-in-an-era-of-pretty-severe-poverty-my-parents-weathered-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4af/wayne-dyer-158_great_i-grew-up-in-an-era-of-pretty-severe-pov_2824815.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4af/wayne-dyer-158_great_i-grew-up-in-an-era-of-pretty-severe-pov_2824815.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4af/wayne-dyer-158_great_i-grew-up-in-an-era-of-pretty-severe-pov_2824815.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. 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And as we shall see, the failure to respond to such a basic need—to prioritize criminal justice systems that can protect poor people from common violence—has had a devastating impact on two great struggles that made heroic progress in the last century but have stalled out for the poorest in the twenty-first century: namely, the struggle to end severe poverty and the fight to secure the most basic human rights.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gary A. 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