Hugh Jackman Quotes

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

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

Can You Fight Poverty With A Five-Star Hotel?

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

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

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.

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

Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we will have to do business as usual, because cleaning up the environment, mitigating climate change is just too costly. Well, I say the business of poverty is just too expensive a bill for humanity to pay any longer.

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.

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.

The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.

Do we have the will to make poverty history?

...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.

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

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

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

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

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

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

The way to reduce pollution in Detroit is to make automobile company executives drive in non-air-conditioned cars during summer rush hours. The way to get business to join the war on poverty is to make corporate executives drive through Harlem every day instead of going home on air-conditioned trains drinking martinis.

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

It is futile to seek solutions to environmental disturbances without considering them from a broad perspective that encompasses the factors underlying world poverty and the inequities within and among nations.

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.