Kevin Brady Quotes

The world today is anything but trouble-free.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

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

The world is pretty messed up.

The world is a mess.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

The world is too violent right now.

Africa is a very dangerous place.

Our time has experienced greater technological progress than ever existed before, and yet we are faced with the fact that world-wide poverty, hunger, death of children, unemployment, misery and the destruction of nature have not abated but rather to some extent increased. Many peoples are threatened with economic ruin, social disarray, political marginalization and national collapse.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

The cry of the poor for bread has been answered by warheads!

War is never a good environment in which to run.

I do not believe as Martin Luther King did, that the arc of history bends towards justice. I see the arc of history bending towards chaos or the unknown.

The world is always terrible.

Mexico scares me. There's no law, there's wild dogs and people driving their ATVs down the street. I like to know I can walk down the street and not be arrested for something dumb and have to pay to get my way out.

In the 55-60 years of their rule, the successive Congress government have only looted the country and plunged it into poverty, casteism, regionalism, terrorism, and naxalism.

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.