It's amazing how often campaigners in rich countries think poor people don't get backache.
What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.
The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted - is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world.
I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.
It isn't only rich countries that suffer from the effects of tax havens. Developing countries also lose billions of dollars in tax revenues due each year because wealthy individuals and some companies use tax havens to move assets and income offshore.
As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.
Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.
I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don't really try to act like a rich person, so I don't know what they buy. I didn't really like the stuff I saw, so I'm gonna stick with my humble lifestyle and just keep working out.
