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No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Whatever people's backgrounds or values, a society where more and more people face a daily struggle to house, clothe and even feed themselves and…

— Emily Thornberry

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater…

— Mother Teresa

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is…

— Bill Gates

Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and…

— Barack Obama

In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives.

— Japanese Proverb

Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and…

— Ross Garnaut

In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills…

— James Wolfensohn

The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take…

— William Godwin

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

— Ana Castillo

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

— Margaret Drabble

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty…

— John Kenneth Galbraith