We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people ...

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit ...

I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, the only place you can see poverty is in the museum. When school children will be on a tour of the poverty museum, they will be horrified......

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all ...

The direct elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid.Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product GNP ...

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them ...

Poverty belongs only in the museum, not in any human society ...

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like ...

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don......

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. For building stable peace we must find ways to provide opportunities for people to live decent lives ...