Vilfredo Pareto Quotes

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.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; and does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities.

I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.

Surplus RBI reserves can be used for poverty alleviation.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of all charitable work in churches and other private organizations: assist those who need help, and equally important, don't assist individuals who can take care of themselves.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

If we can spend the money to put a man on the moon, we ought to be able to find the funds to put a man on his feet.

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

Society’s willingness to provide for the poor among them increases when the standard of living is advancing.

Bend everything toward improving the standard of living of the people.

The important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

The economic future of white America is going to be dependant on non-white America.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

We happen to be living in an era when, in consequence of human gullibility and fallibility, the world has been overtaken by panic and distress such as private initiative alone cannot cope with. To an extent that could previously never have been expected the cities, the states, and the central government have been compelled to undertake to provide relief where voluntary agencies have been unequal to the task.

We don’t want to turn this [social] safety net into a hammock that ends up lulling people in their lives into dependency and complacency.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

Rahul Gandhi has promised to remove poverty and unemployment. There is nothing new about the election promises of Congress. Had only half of those promises been fulfilled, India would have been the most prosperous country in the world today.