Capacity Quote by Thabo Mbeki

“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Throughout history, societies have suffered from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others; and biological…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

— Oscar Wilde

“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated if we…

— Matthew Desmond

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in…

— Dean Karlan

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to…

— Jim Yong Kim

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

— 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

Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a…

— Christopher Ryan

The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all,…

— Martin Sheen

“Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation.…

— Patrick Colquhoun