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James Wolfensohn Quotes

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development Picture Quote #1

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it’s very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong Picture Quote #1

Today, you have 20 percent of the world controlling 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product; you’ve got a $30 trillion (US) world economy, and $24 trillion of it is in the developed countries... These inequities can’t exist. So if you are talking about systemic breakdown, I think you have to look in terms of social breakdown Picture Quote #1

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality Picture Quote #1

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue Picture Quote #1

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there’s no way that we’re going to have a peaceful world for our children Picture Quote #1

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We have three billion people, half the world’s population today, living on less than two dollars a day Picture Quote #1

The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and growth or a planet of unbridgeable differences between peoples, wasted resources, corruption, and terror Picture Quote #1

What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope Picture Quote #1

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty Picture Quote #1

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty Picture Quote #1

If you’re changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else Picture Quote #1

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So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty Picture Quote #1

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Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development (James Wolfensohn Quotes) But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it’s very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong (James Wolfensohn Quotes) Today, you have 20 percent of the world controlling 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product; you’ve got a $30 trillion (US) world economy, and $24 trillion of it is in the developed countries... These inequities can’t exist. So if you are talking about systemic breakdown, I think you have to look in terms of social breakdown (James Wolfensohn Quotes) The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality (James Wolfensohn Quotes) The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue (James Wolfensohn Quotes) I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there’s no way that we’re going to have a peaceful world for our children (James Wolfensohn Quotes) We have three billion people, half the world’s population today, living on less than two dollars a day (James Wolfensohn Quotes) The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and growth or a planet of unbridgeable differences between peoples, wasted resources, corruption, and terror (James Wolfensohn Quotes) What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope (James Wolfensohn Quotes) Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty (James Wolfensohn Quotes) The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty (James Wolfensohn Quotes) If you’re changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else (James Wolfensohn Quotes) So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty (James Wolfensohn Quotes)