Squalor Quotations

The model of development we are accustomed to has been fruitful for few and flawed for many. A path to prosperity that ravages the environment and leaves a majority of humankind behind in squalor will soon prove to be a dead-end road for everyone.

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

We're not going to let people die in squalor because we are Republicans.