Paul Polman Quotes

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

There are too many who have not shared in the benefits of this economy.

Poverty is unnecessary.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Inequality is on the rise.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

We have to stop letting people come in here and make millionaires and billionaires of themselves off of West Virginia while West Virginia remains poor.

Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

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

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.