Poverty Quote by Edward R. Pease

“In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed. When those horrors release a violence…

— Elena Ferrante

“Vast populations in parasitic hot zones are without hospitals, doctors, drugs, or surgical equipment. Meanwhile, often directed at the very same underserved regions, wealthy…

— Kathleen McAuliffe

“In all my travels I saw very little real poverty, I mean the grinding terrifying poorness of the Thirties. That at least was real…

— John Steinbeck

“Demanding yet denying the human condition makes for an explosive contradiction. And explode it does, as you and I know. And we live in…

— Frantz Fanon

“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“But there never was a country, no matter how noble or well-intentioned, that wasn't infected by a greedy and power-hungry few.”

— Jonathan Maberry

“America is particularly boastful of her great power, her enormous national wealth. Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals…

— Emma Goldman

“Before answering this question, we need to say a few more words about famine, plague and war. The claim that we are bringing them…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“You see, each country has a colour, a smell, and also a contagious sickness. In my country the sickness is complacency. In France it's…

— Gil Courtemanche

“Infectious disease is one of the great tragedies of living things - the struggle for existence between two different forms of life... Incessantly, the…

— Hans Zinsser

“In our day, this global offensive plays a well-defines role. Its aim is to justify te very unequal income distribution between countries and social…

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

— Jeffrey Sachs