Jeffrey Sachs Quotes

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

Do we have the will to make poverty history?

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

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

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and we should.

Ending extreme poverty is possible.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.

I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

Giving every girl in the world the chance of a healthy, educated, and economically independent life is essential if we are to end poverty around the world.

Education is the antidote to poverty.

If we provide quality education to one generation, poverty will automatically be eradicated from society.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.