Breeding Quote by Jeffrey Sachs

Poverty is the root of all evil.

— Sheikh Hasina

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

— Kofi Annan

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

— Robert D. Kaplan

Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.

— Martin O'Malley

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Poverty is a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities - our homes, our pantries, our schools,…

— Wes Moore

Poverty is the greatest violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

— Damian Marley

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

— Helen Keller

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything…

— Seneca the Younger

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

— Bill Gates

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

— Pope Benedict XVI