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Thinker · 9 quotes
9 sourced quotes by Muhammad Yunus on economy, development & poverty, culture, art & literature, happiness & meaning of life, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
You cannot change the world in a day...if you want to change, start from your village.
Poor people always pay back their loans. It's us, the creators of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.
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.
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.
All human beings have an innate skill — survival skill. The fact that poor are still alive is a proof of their ability to survive. We do not need to teach them how to survive. They know this already.
The direct elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product GNP.
... culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street. When people hide behind a culture, you know that's a dead culture.
Making money from business is happiness, but making other people happy is super happiness.