Muhammad Yunus Short Quotes

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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

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Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

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Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

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We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.

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Poor people always pay back their loans. It's us, the creators of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

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The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.

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We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create.

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Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

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Things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

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The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

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A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.

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Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

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Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.

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One cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

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In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and finally fall asleep without the milk she needs to survive.

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Poverty has been created by the economic and social system that we have designed for the world. It is the institutions that we have built, and feel so proud of, which created poverty.

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We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

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