"To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what h...
Poverty is unnecessary.
More Muhammad Yunus quotes
"I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fu...
"The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!
"Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
"When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for ...
"If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot ...
"The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.
"Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad ...
"I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to...
"Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, ...
"What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it wort...
"When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is the househ...
"Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
"Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themse...
"People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial ...