Oscar Arias Quotes

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

Activists are killed in Mexico.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

The cry of the poor for bread has been answered by warheads!

It’s dangerous to live among poor people, because if they don’t have income, they are coming for you.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be war, corruption, and imperfect institutions.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.