Poorer Countries Quotes

#1. Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.

Angela Merkel

#2. Fortunately poorer countries, such as China, are showing leadership and beginning to demonstrate to the world how to invest in low-carbon growth.

Nicholas Stern

#3. Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

Theodore Bikel

#4. Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

Chris Martin

#5. At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power ...

Catherine Bertini

#6. Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity.

John Redwood

#7. XXII. The key to peaceableness is continuous practice. It is wrong to suppose that we can exploit and impoverish the poorer countries, while arming them and instructing them in the newest means of war, and then reasonably expect them to be peaceable.

Wendell Berry

#8. In the late 1960s a woman in the poorer countries of the world typically had six children. Today the average is fewer than three. In fact, demographers now project that the world's population will begin to decline before 2050.47

Stephanie Coontz

#9. None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior ...

James Thayer

#10. There's nothing worse than winning but being told by people that you're losing.

Jerry Della Femina

#11. They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.

Salena Godden

#12. I must demonstrate I'm closer to people - a simpler, calmer presence, yet someone who can also make decisions and obtain promised results.

Francois Hollande

#13. Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

Steven Pinker

#14. In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.

Margaret Thatcher

#15. And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

Minoru Yamasaki

#16. Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.

Mark Rothko

#17. Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.

John F. Kennedy

#18. These, and many of the other best-known legends of the Rosebud, are false ... the ghost stories of people who have seen too many horror movies and who think they know exactly how a ghost story should be.

Joe Hill

#19. Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.

Liu Cixin