By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense. – Brad Pitt
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. – Anatole France
The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution… Here it is: Put a price on carbon. – Al Gore
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education. – Azim Premji
It’s hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell ’em they’re irresponsible and lazy. And who’s gonna wanna do that? Because that’s what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period. – Bill O’Reilly
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. – Confucius
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. – Anthony Trollope
Before Social Security existed, about half of America’s senior citizens lived in poverty. – Bernie Sanders
A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life. – Alana Stewart
Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic. – Catherine Tate
It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions. – Bono
I’ve never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it’s like to live on £3 a week. – Annie Lennox
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful. – Bill Gates
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. – Al Franken
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. – Charles B. Rangel
Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later? – Bono
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. – Barack Obama
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn’t live like a star. He’d taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others. – Amy Grant
The planet’s biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they’re all interconnected – it’s one big problem, which is that the way we’re doing things can’t go on. – Alex Steffen
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. – Bill Gates
Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. – Ayrton Senna
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line. – Bill Pascrell
There’s much talk about how there can’t be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, ‘Guys, I come from India. I’m more optimistic coming from where I’m coming.’ – Bobby Ghosh
I hear, ‘But why do poor people make such bad decisions?’ But actually, their decision-making can be far more complex than that of the better-off in many ways. They’re not financially illiterate: they’re constantly weighing up choices based on the reality of poverty. Somehow the international development community has resisted accepting this. – Ann Cotton
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this. – Bono