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Making money from business is happiness, but making other people happy is super happiness.

— Muhammad Yunus

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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

This attack is not only on Hadi, this attack is on the existence of whole Bangladesh.

Poor people always pay back their loans. It's us, the creators of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

Grameen Bank II: Designed to Open New Possibilities (2002)

You cannot change the world in a day...if you want to change, start from your village.

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.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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