“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!”
“I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.”
“The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world free from struggle.”
“We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don't have anything; perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.”
“Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.”
“Vampire Willow Rosenberg: "In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.”