Perhaps it will also serve as a reminder to those who think they have grand and global solutions to the challenges of the world that it is often thro… - Muhammad Yunus

Like any other idea, that of social business is subject to being misused and perverted. A few powerful people will look for ways to distort the concept and twist it for their own benefit — just as some misguided people have applied the term “microcredit” to describe companies that are really just loan sharks in disguise. Well-intentioned people will need to be on guard against those who would abuse the good name of social business.

Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.

Hungry people were everywhere. Often they sat so still that one could not be sure whether they were alive or dead. They all looked alike: men, women, children. Old people looked like children, and children looked like old people.