Civilized Quote by Muhammad Yunus

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

I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can…

— Muhammad Yunus

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose…

— Adam Davidson

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

— Jane Austen

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse…

— Washington Irving

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is rather a state of mind. No man who possess this mentality can outwardly command abundance.

— Ore Abayomi

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

— Nelson Mandela

Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth,…

— Alan Watts