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  • Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that. -- William Easterly
  • The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is. -- Jacque Fresco
  • America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty. -- Hugh Evans
  • We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers. -- Liya Kebede
  • 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
  • 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. -- Adora Svitak
  • I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty. -- Benigno Aquino III
  • I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution. -- Kathleen Blanco
  • It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. -- Washington Irving
  • Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time. -- Grace Abbott
  • Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system. -- Jim Yong Kim
  • In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. -- Oscar Wilde
  • The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world. -- Dambisa Moyo
  • My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
  • We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.' -- Carl Honore
  • I feel I should do everything I can to make a difference in Haiti. My main goal to help the people of Haiti is to give them homes, food, and jobs. It is heartbreaking to see little children sleeping on the ground in tents made of trash bags. I hope that we can put an end to this type of poverty not only in Haiti, but in the entire world. -- Noah Munck
  • Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty. -- Mark Winne
  • We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change. -- Jim Yong Kim
  • Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • Education is the best way to end the cycle of poverty and the exploitation of Children -- Radwan Chowdhury
  • Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might. -- Leila Janah
  • What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end. -- Oliver Stone
  • Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear. -- Chanakya
  • Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it's conversations around how to end hunger and poverty. -- Raj Patel
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  • I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school. -- Malala Yousafzai
  • When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening. -- Desmond Tutu
  • As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime. -- James Reston, Jr.
  • The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom. -- Jose Andres Puerta
  • That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry. -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country. -- Manny Pacquiao
  • To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. -- Jane Jacobs
  • In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day. -- Angelina Jolie
  • Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice. -- Shane Claiborne
  • No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us. -- M.F. Moonzajer
  • The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease. -- Leila Janah
  • ...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot. -- Russell Kirk
  • New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion. -- Ramez Naam
  • The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade. -- Andrew Mwenda
  • If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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