Global poverty Quote by William J. Clinton Download Open image “Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.” — William J. Clinton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Global poverty Indifference Kegs Poverty Powder
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American… — Hugh Evans Copy Share Image
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor. — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill. — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I take full responsability...for what we did. It was the right thing to do. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
You know, I've always been really interested in this stuff, and I'm going to read this. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We [Democrats] have got to be strong. When we look weak in a time where people feel insecure, we lose. when people feel uncertain,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American… — Hugh Evans Copy Share Image
Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Eliminating global poverty will need the talent and potential of all, not just half the population. — Alok Sharma Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The money from wealthy nations to confront some very real global poverty and economic issues is largely given out of guilt. — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
We certainly would resolve the problems of the charities that are working in areas where they can do the most good. So if you… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might. — Leila Janah Copy Share Image
“Hours are long. Wages are pitiful. But sweatshops are the symptom, not the cause, of shocking global poverty. Workers go there voluntarily, which means—hard… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image