Noam Chomsky Quotes

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.

Third World nations will recognize [their] debts only so long as they're able to get them rescheduled and have money lent to them.

No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed.

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

Africa has no time to lose. The global economy is fast leaving our continent behind.

The only way really to influence countries, in terms of poverty, is to get them to change their policies and get them to understand what the issues are.

Many developing nations have such severe debt and budget problems that the money given by developed nations will never be spent the way it is intended.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

Government cannot solve our problems. It can't set our goals. It cannot define our vision. Government cannot eliminate poverty or provide a bountiful economy or reduce inflation or save our cities.

We have got to put a human face on the global economy.

Debt relief without the opening of markets will not relieve third world countries from their poverty.

If any one owe a debt for a loan, and a storm prostrates the grain, or the harvest fail, or the grain does not grow for lack of water; in that year he need not give his creditor any grain, he washes his debt-tablet in water and pays no rent for this year.

Abolish Poverty

At the end of every 7th year you must make a remission of debts…. Everyone who holds a pledge shall return the pledge to the person indebted to him. He must not press a fellow countryman for payment, for the Lord’s year of remission has been declared. You may press foreigners; but if it is a fellow countryman that holds anything of yours, you just renounce all claim on it.

Our policy is not directed against any country or doctrine, but is directed against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and economic conditions in which free institutions can exist.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

There was a brief moment, after Haiti's 2010 earthquake, when even Bill Clinton recognized what had been done to Haiti in the name of 'free trade': the destruction of local markets and rice production.

We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.

The U.N. has been focusing on the global goals in terms of trying to fight and eradicate poverty, and I feel like education is at the root of it all.

The economics of life is against the family.