Mother Teresa Quotes

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

The world does not lack the financial resources to feed, educate and clothe its inhabitants. Rather, it lacks leaders committed to addressing the problems of the impoverished.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

There is no peace in poverty

We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived.

We currently reside in the wealthiest and most powerful civilization in the history of the world. The idea that someone should go hungry or be without the bare essentials of life is, to me... It's not shameful, I actually think it's criminal.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.