Nursultan Nazarbayev Quotes

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

Poverty is born of super-abundance itself.

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation.

You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know.

We have a lot of societal problems that we have to fix in the 1990s.

We've got to help our community out. We've got to help Baltimore out, because it's a lot of things that have been handed down in our society that we're dealing with.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

I would not apply the strategy of Calderon. I would look at the causes. Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

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

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

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.