Excuse Quote by Bernard Levin

Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies.

— Masha Gessen

I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can…

— Muhammad Yunus

...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human…

— Kofi Annan

We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Poverty is not a natural conclusion. It is an intervention. We are not poor because we are inferior as a group of people; we…

— Frances Varian

When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

We should not think of poverty eradication as a matter of collecting money and giving it to the poor so much as of reforming…

— Thomas Pogge

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is…

— Dorothy Day

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes…

— Nelson Mandela

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“If we’re all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we come up with,…

— Bob Torres