Mark Goulston Quotes

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

They don’t hate the West because of any specific policy or action like Israel or Iraq. They just hate because they have been unsuccessful; they feel that they’ve been denied their rightful place in life.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a hundred.

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

All oppression creates a state of war.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

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

Poverty and immorality are not synonymous.

People have nothing to lose. Government has stripped them of their dignity and their respect.

Individuals and families whose standards of living are shockingly low quite naturally feel that they have nothing to lose by championing Communism.

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slaver's scars, I am the Red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek— And finding only the same ole stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

All the households of the poor are not equally submissive

Despite the advances in technology and communications that link us more closely than ever before, there remains the reality of division at so many levels in our world. We see these divides between rich and poor, between women and men, between different religions or ethnic groups, between citizens and migrants. We know as well that these divides are at the core of so many of today's conflicts.