Army Quote by John Woolman

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

— George Soros

Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot…

— Gunnar Myrdal

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa,…

— Tran Duc Luong

For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some…

— Peter Singer

On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest…

— George Gilder

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want.…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end…

— Robert Muller

For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration.

— Anand Mahindra

there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our…

— Ernestine Rose

Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy,…

— Abu Dhar al-Ghifari