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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.

Quotes by Alex Steffen

I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?

Quotes by Alex Tabarrok

We are actually a very rich country with a lot of resources and the ability to do almost whatever we want. We could eliminate poverty in America by spending a fraction of what we spend on defense.

Quotes by Alex Pareene

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Quotes by Alex Cox

When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

Quotes by Alex Gibney

I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that the U.S., a very wealthy nation, permits and even encourages a level of poverty that other wealthy nations would not even consider.

Quotes by Alex Gibney

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

Quotes by Aleksandr Kuprin

When you affect consumption, production falls, and when production falls, employment falls and when unemployment rises, it affects poverty.

Quotes by Alberto Fernandez

Mr. Macri's government caused damage similar to what Argentina suffered in 2001: a debt default, no foreign-currency reserves, a steep devaluation and increased poverty.

Quotes by Alberto Fernandez

Poverty has become a big problem.

Quotes by Alberto Fernandez

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Quotes by Alberto Fujimori

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.

Quotes by Alberto Fujimori

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

Quotes by Alden Nowlan

A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.

Quotes by Alana Stewart

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Albert Camus

I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment.

Quotes by Al Sharpton

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

Quotes by Al-Waleed bin Talal

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.

Quotes by Al Franken

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

Quotes by Ahmed Ben Bella

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

Quotes by Adora Svitak

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Quotes by Adam Smith

Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

Quotes by Adam Braun

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

Quotes by Abdullah II of Jordan

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative poverty line. It is reset from time to time but it is related to U.S. median income, so if I set that to be the absolute poverty line everyone in India would essentially be poor.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and we should.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

Quotes by Abbe Pierre

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times.

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