Best poverty & solve Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.”

“To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.”

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Author:L. Neil Smith

“The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.”

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Book:Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life

Source: Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life

“Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.”

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.”

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Book:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“I cant solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.”

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Author:Sal Albanese

“If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them. I am just a link in the process. If I don't take anything personally, then I can do great work without flagging. The Dalai Lama once said, 'Try with all your might - to work very, very hard - to make the world a better place, and if all your efforts are to no avail . . . no hard feelings!'”

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Author:Bo Lozoff

“I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.”

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Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.”

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Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.”

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Author:Matt Damon

“The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.”

Ifs Problem Poverty India Solve Wheels Spinning

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.”

Problem Poverty Solve Wheels Spinning

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I thought I did that. I prepared myself for that kind of road. But then I realized that I had not learned enough to solve the problem of poverty. So I distanced myself from the things that I learned and tried to learn anew about people.”

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Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.”

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Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.”

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Author:Peter Yarrow

“The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.”

“It's also important that I, or [Producer] Karen Pritzker, also say that this film [ "Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope"] is not going to singlehandedly solve crime and poverty, or make big changes.”

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Author:James Redford

“We have so many issues today that we need to confront. Comprehensive immigration reform. We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war - spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build. We have to deal with the fact that all of our children should be receiving the best possible education.”

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Author:John Lewis

“It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.”

Source: Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979

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