P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

There are millions more people living in poverty today than the day that Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton at his side, stepped into the oval office.

Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

Problems of persistent poverty cannot be addressed unless they are acknowledged.

When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity.

I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I go and find the environment of those who are living in poverty and resisting poverty is a great in which I have great comfort.

Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it?

I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.

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

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

The developing world is poor. It needs capital.

The poor will never cease out of the land.