“We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.”
![“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 see poverty is in the museum. When school children will be on a tour of the poverty museum, they will be horrified to see the misery and indignity of human beings. They will…” quote by Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6b7/muhammad-yunus-2158_believe_i-strongly-believe-that-we-can-create-a_2616379.jpg)
![“We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.” quote by Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/760/muhammad-yunus-2158_approximation_we-believe-that-poverty-does-not-belong_2189362.jpg)
