Segolene Royal Quotes

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

The world today is anything but trouble-free.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

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

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

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

The best way to perpetuate poverty is spending on arms, and poverty itself is a form of violence. The wealthy industrialized countries have been too slow to recognize this. I hope that in this new century and new millennium, the world will learn that if you want peace, you must prepare for peace, plan for peace, work for it, and comply with its dictates. Lasting peace will never be achieved with the instruments of war.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

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

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

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

Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred.

A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.

In my opinion, peace has not come to America, to Nicaragua, or to El Salvador. A hungry people is a people without peace. If the demands of the people are not met, what kind of peace are we talking about?

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

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.

I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.

There is no peace in poverty

A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.