Mark Blyth Quotes

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.

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.

When our economy is not growing, those least able to look after themselves are the first thrown overboard ...

Poverty is a soft pedal upon all branches of human activity.

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea.

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.

For a quarter-century, and changing only very recently, the main IMF prescription has been budgetary belt-tightening for patients much too poor to own belts. IMF led austerity has frequently resulted in riots, coups, and the collapse of public services.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

They are all afraid to face high taxation to pay for the war. The rich won't stand it—and the poor can't stand it.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort, dignity, and personal advance is only a myth, or worse, a bitter mockery.

The chaos of poverty feeds on itself.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

Wealth does not trickle down to the poor. Oxfam knows this, the IMF knows this, the World Bank knows this. Poor people have always known this.

A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.