Pope Francis Quotes

Nobody in America lives at the survival level, Most people in the world would love to live the way poor Americans live.

What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries?

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

The combined Gross Domestic Product of forty-eight countries is less than the wealth of the three richest people in the world. Fifteen billionaires have assets greater than the total national income of Africa, south of the Sahara. Thirty-two people own more than the annual income of everyone who lives in South Asia.

The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.

The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income in the world, whereas the people in the top five percent have nine times the average income. So the ratio between the averages in the top five percent and the bottom quarter is somewhere around 300 to one - a huge inequality that also gives you a sense of how easily poverty could be avoided.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

Money can't buy poverty.

I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.

Redistribution of wealth has rarely been from the rich to the poor. Usually it is from the poor and middle class to the rich.

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

The planet is not yet safe. It suffers from the kind of greed that ignores not only global warming but an even more immediate bomb ready to detonate—the terrible gap on the globe between the rich and the poor, the technologically proficient and the majority left behind, the overfed and the starving, and the arrogance of our only superpower, my country, that sees only as far as the next election or tomorrow's Dow Jones Industrial Index.

Global poverty is a powder keg ignitable by our own indifference.

Where the conditions to which material progress everywhere tends are most fully realized, we find the deepest poverty .... Amid the greatest accumulations of wealth, men die of starvation, and puny infants suckle dry breasts.