Cruelty Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

— Henry David Thoreau

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Redistribution alone will never be sufficient for sustained, shared improvement in living standards.”

— Edd S. Noell

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart…

— Pope Francis

“Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.”

— Aesop

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence…

— Thomas Pogge

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect,…

— Muhammad Yunus

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant…

— Rowan Williams

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

— James Cook

To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the…

— Thomas Pogge

“unacceptable levels of poverty”

— Nathan Cole

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

— Amartya Sen