Thomas Pogge Quotes

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

I believe there is no other way to create decent livelihoods for the world's poorest people than to connect them to global markets as producers, and on fair terms.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

We must embark on a bold new program for ... the improvement and growth of undeveloped areas. More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery .... For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of these people.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

… authors generally neglect that growth has lifted billions of people out of grinding poverty and that others may remain poor because of the developed world’s environmental concerns …

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.

I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.