"We citizens of the affluent countries tend to……" — Thomas Pogge
"We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad?"
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Thomas Pogge
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7 Quotes by Thomas Pogge
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Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring…
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The cost of research, development and testing of a new drug is vastly greater than the cost of each dose…
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Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking,…
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By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply…
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It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that…
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The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely,…
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More Abroad Quotes
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a…
— Tucker Carlson
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly…
— William Ellery Channing
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it…
— Edward Kennedy
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