Backwardness Quotes

#1. The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it.

Saddam Hussein

#2. Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

Carroll Quigley

#4. Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#5. The currents of modern civilization had somehow passed it by, and as he returned to it now, fresh from the sides of England and France, Sergei Semenov saw only familiar signs of backwardness and decay.

Orlando Figes

#6. Isolation is a recurring factor in poverty and backwardness around the world, whether that is physical isolation or cultural isolation, for any number of particular reasons

Thomas Sowell

#7. Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness.

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

#8. Slavophilism, the messianism of backwardness, has based its philosophy upon the assumption that the Russian people and their church are democratic through and through, whereas official Russia is a German bureaucracy imposed upon them by Peter the Great.

Leon Trotsky

#9. No single Tibetan dreaming return of previous sort of backwardness, therefore as far as economy development is concerned, Tibet remain within the People's Republic of China, we will get greater benefit.

Dalai Lama

#10. The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

Sushmita Banerjee

#11. The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward.

Mohammed Mahdi Akef

#12. One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism.

Mohammad Marandi

#13. To them she wore the costume of the oppressed from distant lands and was the poster child of backwardness in a forward thinking world. To her, their faces bore the costume of the ignorant, and they were poster children for gross close-mindedness in an open-minded, ever changing world

Umm Zakiyyah

#14. It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.

James Buchan

#15. Still, he could not think of the mass of Moroccans without contempt. He had no patience with their ignorance and backwardness; if he damned the Europeans with one breath, he was bound to damn the Moroccans with the next. No one escaped but him, and that was because he hated himself most of all.

Paul Bowles

#16. Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates.

Li Keqiang

#17. I can never quite decide whether the anti- Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister ... It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.

Christopher Hitchens

#18. The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

King Hussein I

#19. Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving.

George Whitefield

#20. The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.

Dervla Murphy

#21. There's the big advantage of backwardness. By the time the latest ideas reach Chicago, they're worn thin and easy to see through. You don't have to bother with them and it saves lots of trouble.

Saul Bellow

#22. A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn't think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests.

Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

#23. A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.

Kurt Richebacher

#24. Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.

Pablo Antonio Cuadra

#25. The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

Marshall McLuhan

#26. If the traditional victims see matters somewhat differently, that merely reveals their moral and intellectual backwardness. And

Noam Chomsky

#27. Love is about needing someone, about feeling as if the day isn't quite right if they're not there. Its about knowing that, no matter how bad a day you've had, the moment you see them again or hear their voice, the world is back in its place.

Jessica Hart

#28. We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability.

Michel Sidibe

#29. I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.

Milla Jovovich

#30. Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.

Carl Sagan

#31. Someone likes you based not on how he feels about you but on how you make him feel about himself.

David Lieberman

#32. I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.

Arti Honrao

#33. Artemis Entreri: Do not underestimate Jarlaxle. Many have; they all are dead.

R.A. Salvatore

#34. If you first take a minute, an hour or a month to let go of feeling annoyed, frustrated or critical of the person or situation that may be driving you crazy, you set yourself up for much greater leadership and personal success.

John Kuypers

#35. What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.

Rumi

#36. Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. When you find your why you'll find your way. When you develop your will you will embark on your way. Many people start; few people finish. Many people have a dream; few people achieve their dreams.

John C. Maxwell

#37. I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.

Angelo Dundee

#38. Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.

Shawn Ryan

#39. Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

John Lydon