Poor Nations Quotes

Poor Nations Quote of the day

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the - not so very - long run.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.

President Obama has pledged $3 billion to aid poor nations. All of that $3 billion is going to the United States.