Azzedine Alaia Quotes

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

We just don’t have enough money to be trying to create nations.

I can't stand people who have all the money but do not even bother to help innocent children in any small way they possibly can.

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

I don’t think I’d set money above public health. I place them all at the highest ranking.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

Lawyers are making more money than the cleanup folks are.

If we can afford large sums of money or other such things as horseracing, and motion picture films, and we do—I'm not arguing against them—then I say we ought to have sufficient sense of values to say that health is more important than these things, and if we can find money for relatively non-essential things, we can find the money to give our people good health.

You're not going to solve the problems of poverty in the world with less energy.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

How many more infants must die every day in Africa because resources are being swallowed up in debt repayment.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

Actually, the problem in the world is that there is much too many rich people

We spend a billion dollars a day in Iraq and we can’t have health insurance for 46 million Americans. It is the fracturing of America’s humanity.

I do not accept the fact that a person should be poor if he works very hard.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

Wealth is far away. Poverty is near.

In the developed world, income inequality within the country is the most important determinant of health standards and life expectancy.

If your baby is going to die and it doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much money you make.

Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policies helped produce massive income inequality by lopsided breaks for the super wealthy.

Crowdfunding companies like GoFundMe are in themselves not evil. But the fact that we have to rely on them to pay for our basics is.

There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.