Peter Singer Quotes

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

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.

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease - it's really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE.

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

Inequality is on the rise.

Social inequality kills. It unduly deprives individuals and communities experiencing social deprivation of their health, increases their burden of disease and disease, and cuts short their lives.

People without money are slaves.

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.

The real threat to the democracy is the half a nation in poverty.

If poverty was an easy problem to solve, it would have been solved a long time ago.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

After all we have done to provide the needy with food, the landlords appropriate the people’s corn and use the employment of the poor to improve their properties at public expense.

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

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?

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

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

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

It's amazing how often campaigners in rich countries think poor people don't get backache.