Riane Eisler Quotes

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few cents, or by reducing student debt slightly. These might be necessary components of a larger anti-poverty program, but you have to accept they are pieces of a much larger puzzle.

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

We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

Rising inequality is toxic to growth. High levels of inequality exclude people - both as innovators and customers - diminishing both innovation and demand.

It is because of capitalism that we can pay for services to poor people that we don't even know.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

Remove poverty from politics.