Kofi Annan Quotes

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

There is no peace in poverty

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

Halve the income of the country and you double the risk of civil war.

We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

Being poor is only romantic in books.

Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social.

When our economy is not growing, those least able to look after themselves are the first thrown overboard ...

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.

There are people with no high school education who are poor. but there are also university graduates on food bank lines. There are people who are poor because they have made bad choices, gotten addicted to drugs, burned bridges with friends and family — and then there are people who have never taken a drug in their lives, who have huge social networks, and who still can’t make ends meet.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

The children of those people [long term unemployed] have less education, earn less, have higher unemployment. The problems are visited upon the children