21st century Quote by Winnie Byanyima

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By all measures…

— Edgar Mitchell

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

— James Wolfensohn

In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled.

— Dallas Campbell

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

— Zygmunt Bauman

“Almost 1/2 the world’s wealth ($110 trillion) is owned by just 1% of ts population”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

A bus ride is like being in another world.

— J.A. Redmerski

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

— John Pilger

Much of life for many people, even in the heart of the First World, still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your…

— Doreen Massey

In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent…

— Duane Elgin

The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care,…

— Bill Gates

I think if you have a large group of people like we do - we have 1.2 million employees - it's almost like a…

— Andy Jassy

We're not the millionaires that people think when they see busses.

— Josh Silver