Areas Quote by Colin Powell

The diagnosis that poverty, lack of education, or lack of opportunities have much to do with terrorism requires a fundamentally optimistic view of human…

— Peter Bergen

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

— Eliza Griswold

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take…

— John Shelby Spong

Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If…

— Margaret Thatcher

It isn't poverty that breeds terrorism, but terrorism that breeds poverty.

— Dan Gillerman

Terrorism thrives when the gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots' becomes so wide and when the 'have nots' reach the point of such…

— Mark Goulston

Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.

— S. Azmat Hassan

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to…

— Cofer Black

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

— Robert D. Kaplan

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

— Anna Lindh

Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Terrorism is usually fueled by poverty, and the fanatical faith of the terrorists who truly believe that the more people they kill who do…

— Jane Goodall