#or

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#because #care #created #denied #does

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#both #commands #crude #distorted #life

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#absence #around #basic #beings #between

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#benefit #borrowers #brought #changed #family

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#bank #bankers #fell #i #lend

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#around #bank #billion #financial #financial systems

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#paper #verbal #worth #written

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#circumstances #ever #get #given #had

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#because #cannot #explained #lend #me

Human beings have enormous resilience. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#enormous #human #human beings #resilience