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 ...

Poverty has been created by the economic and social system that we have designed for the world. It is the institutions that we have built, and feel so proud of, which created poverty ...

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in......

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. We can create a poverty-free world if we redesign our system to take out its gross flaws which create poverty. It......