Consistent Quote by Thomas Pogge

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is…

— Bill Gates

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

— Winnie Byanyima

There is so much injustice in the world. Poverty and war.

— Jim Harbaugh

“Poverty is not a natural conclusion. It is an intervention. We are not poor because we are inferior as a group of people; we…

— Frances Varian

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but…

— John Berger

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages,…

— E. F. Schumacher

To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the…

— Thomas Pogge

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

— Margaret Drabble

While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.

— Joan Robinson

“Poverty is easier to conquer than injustice.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

— Christian Nestell Bovee