Make Poverty History Quotes

#1. I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.

Tom Hodgkinson

#2. Do we have the will to make poverty history?

Edward De Bono

#3. Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#4. 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.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#5. If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

Kofi Annan

#6. People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

Ben Elton

#7. Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. Trees, it turns out, have a completely different way of communicating: they use scent.

Peter Wohlleben

#9. Look, people get drunk ... People chase girls. And the point is, it's a hell of a lot better for them to get drunk than to take drugs. It's better to chase girls than boys.

Richard M. Nixon

#10. Listening to the birds tells you different things about a place. I heard bird sounds I'd never heard before. I heard street sounds and country sounds and city sounds that are very different from what it is I'm used to and I get very fascinated about how that marks a place.

Matana Roberts

#11. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

C.S. Lewis

#12. No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

Gabriel Byrne

#13. How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.

Andrew Marvell

#14. Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.

John F. Kennedy

#15. The longer he marched, the more convinced Peter became that things were indeed hopeless and that an elephant was a ridiculous answer to any question- but a particularly ridiculous answer to a question posed by the human heart.

Kate DiCamillo