Crisis Quote by Petra Kelly

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if…

— Kofi Annan

We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers…

— Indira Gandhi

We live in a country with a vast majority of people below the poverty line. Our natural resources are limited and getting scarcer.

— Amala Akkineni

The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy…

— Gilbert F. White

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of…

— Peter Joseph

The world does not lack the financial resources to feed, educate and clothe its inhabitants. Rather, it lacks leaders committed to addressing the problems…

— Óscar Arias

“… what right [do] people in wealthy countries have to blame the poor for their poverty, much less for humanity’s environmental dilemma, when it…

— Mark Hertsgaard

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we…

— George Eliot

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

— Matthew Desmond

We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade,…

— Bob Geldof

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is…

— Anonymous

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources,

— Iqbal Quadir