Pope Francis Quotes

In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income, not more unemployment and suffering.

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

The only real cure for poverty is production.

Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods, engage in local development and live together in peace. This happens only when work is decent - environmentally sound and productive - provides fair wages, and is underpinned by rights

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

My development parameter is very simple. It is about how the poorest of the poor can benefit from development.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

I want to work for the poor in my country.

The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

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

My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

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

If we can spend the money to put a man on the moon, we ought to be able to find the funds to put a man on his feet.

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We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can improve their lives, that has a positive effect on their communities, on their families, on their countries.

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.