James Wolfensohn Quotes

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

A strong economy is perfectly consistent with concern for equity and economic justice.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the developed world. They just don't get it. They see poverty, inequality, fairness, as all about income. For the past 12 years, they have relied on tax credits to solve this. But tax credits do not solve poverty: they mask it.

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

We need radical, transformative solutions to address the inequality that is blighting millions of people's lives.

Social justice and economics are both issues to me.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

There is no peace in poverty

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.

I don't absolve the Democrats of their lack of commitment to deal with poverty. But nowadays we're witnessing the widening of the gap. There's something wrong when a handful of people have more than they'll ever need while millions of people have less than they always need.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.