Alternatives Quote by Michael Novak

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

— Imelda Marcos

To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed,…

— Sean Wilentz

It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity.…

— Anonymous

Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment is terror.

— Harry Belafonte

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

— Colin Powell

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural…

— Maximilien Robespierre

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

— Dan Gillerman

The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which promise much…

— Robert Dickson Crane

In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.

— Lester R. Brown

If you have a success, the terror is how on earth can you follow it up.

— Peter Wolf

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

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

— Robert D. Kaplan