George Osborne Quotes

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

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

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

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

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

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.

Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the developed world. They just don't get it. They see poverty, inequality, fairness, as all about income. For the past 12 years, they have relied on tax credits to solve this. But tax credits do not solve poverty: they mask it.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

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

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

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

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.