Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

Migrants are essentially escaping from countries with dysfunctional social models.

One of the problems is that there are people in the shadows. There are people afraid of their own government

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

Africa is a very dangerous place.

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

Democracies are often run by ethnically based groups prepared to do terrible things to other ethnic groups... or they can be very corrupt, dominated by elites...

What our country really is, the home of oppression and injustice, a nightmare of misery, an inferno of suffering and human hell, a jungle of wild beasts.

The reason that America was a First World nation was that we had a First World population, and as we continue to be inundated with people from Third World nations, we are going to become a Third World nations….Desperate situations call for rash actions!

The declining security of African peoples as a consequence of warfare, predatory officials, and weak economies should not be eclipsed in the international community's pursuit of anti-terrorism campaigns.

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

I don't want, under any circumstances, to see in 'Haaretz' a picture of a woman with a baby in her arms crying while policemen deport her.

Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation, bitterness, and a deep, unrelenting sense of humiliation.

Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

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

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations.

Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

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

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

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.