British Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

“If overpopulation or lack of resources created poverty, then Hong Kong should be poor. Hong Kong has 20 times as many people per square…

— John Stossel

“Whether it is North Korea, Sierra Leone, or Zimbabwe, well show that poor countries are poor for the same reason that Egypt is poor.…

— Daron Acemoğlu

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that worked its…

— Paul Krugman

“Eventually, however, the fact that many once-poor places like Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore achieved prosperity through freer international trade and investment became…

— Thomas Sowell

“In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn’t unite;…

— Katherine Boo

The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

— Marco Rubio

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

The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical…

— George Monbiot

In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed,…

— Margaret Thatcher