James Wolfensohn Quotes

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

The best way to perpetuate poverty is by spending on arms and military, and the best way to fight terrorism is by fighting the basic needs of humanity, because hunger and poverty perpetuate crime.

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.

In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to change - how we need to ameliorate deep poverty, heal the earth, end war.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

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

My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.