Top 100 Quotes About The Third World
#1. Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
Patricia Highsmith
#2. I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.
Susanne Bier
#3. Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose name was synonymous with colonial exploitation and the rapacious ruin of the third world.
Kiran Desai
#4. If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!
Harvey MacKay
#5. We are the third world not because the sun rises on the West and sets in the East but because we have engaged the reverse gear and we are moving with jet like speed in the wrong direction -we must change this by rolling up our sleeves and working for the growth of our country.
Patrick L.O. Lumumba
#6. Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all ... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World
Arundhati Roy
#7. When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas of a proper environment and a rewarding life. Doing this, it disrupted the delicate patterns of adaptation and created problems that had not existed before.
Paul Feyerabend
#8. Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.
Arthur Lewis
#9. The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.
Ronald Reagan
#10. The only difference between Detroit and the Third World in terms of corruption is Detroit don't have no goats in the streets.
Charlie LeDuff
#11. Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.
Michael Parenti
#12. There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe
so they can throw you in jail.
P. J. O'Rourke
#13. I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle ... you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#14. To be a child of the Third World is to be aware of the many different constituencies you have and how honesty and truth must always depend on context.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#15. So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
Bjorn Lomborg
#16. I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
Norman Finkelstein
#17. The rejection of sabotage in the metropole, based on the argument that it would be better to take things over instead of destroying them, is based on the dictum: The people of the Third World should wait for their revolution until the masses in the metropole catch up.
Red Army Faction
#18. Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.
Ali Khamenei
#19. I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!
Albert Einstein
#20. I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.
P. J. O'Rourke
#21. The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.
Camille Paglia
#22. More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
Fidel Castro
#23. There's a reason the Third World came in third.
Jim Goad
#24. The third world war is not going to happen! I predict it! It is not going to happen, because of you, because of my people around the earth! They are the only hope. Only millions of buddhas are capable of creating the atmosphere for peace, for love, for compassion, for celebration.
Rajneesh
#25. Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.
Jean Ziegler
#26. In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
Ahmed Ben Bella
#27. After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
Jim Harrison
#28. Every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter.
Jodi Picoult
#29. 601If love is a precious resource, it is not one simply extracted from the Third World and implanted in the First; rather, it owes its very existence to a particular cultural alchemy that occurs in the land to which it is imported.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#30. To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.
Amartya Sen
#31. There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
Malcolm Gladwell
#32. WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT OF the United States during the Third World War?
Kiera Cass
#33. I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
Buchi Emecheta
#34. Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
Buchi Emecheta
#35. Okay, fine. You won't vote for us, America? We tried this the easy way, but you give us no choice. We're going to overwhelm you with new voters from the Third World.
Ann Coulter
#36. Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries
Henry A. Kissinger
#37. In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything might. 4. At red lights. 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times.
P. J. O'Rourke
#38. I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.
John Gimlette
#39. One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.
P. J. O'Rourke
#40. My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
Bjorn Lomborg
#41. The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
Hannah Arendt
#42. I move through the third world, my third eye's the guiding light / Invite the fight, we all die tonight
Inspectah Deck
#44. We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
Vivienne Westwood
#45. The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.
Christopher Hitchens
#46. What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.
P. J. O'Rourke
#47. I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks. - Albert Einstein, in an interview with Alfred Werner for Liberal Judaism (1949)
Robert Masello
#48. Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of mans experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggles of the peoples of the Third World. We draw the lessons of the American revolution.
Thomas Sankara
#49. He said he had evidence that the Company was giving the opposition party money, which was just preposterous considering what bad form it would have been, trusting anybody in the Third World with money.
Marlon James
#50. I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.
Susan Minot
#51. I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.
Martin Sheen
#52. My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
Nina Simone
#53. I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.
Jimmy Carr
#54. Take a look at all the third-world countries that are increasing the so called standard of living. One aspect of this rise in standard of living is the increased consumption of animal products, which directly correlates with the rise in heart disease.
William McNamara
#55. What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
Ferdinand Marcos
#56. I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?
Alex Tabarrok
#57. The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people ... The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Huey Newton
#58. The rest of the Third World people are seeing, that the country can make a real change. No changing or trading one master for another. The only real change would be to socialize the means of production and this is what's happening in Jamaica.
Huey Newton
#59. The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.
Eleanor Smeal
#60. In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.
Charles Krauthammer
#61. And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.
Martin Sheen
#62. In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
Fidel Castro
#63. Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.
Terry Southern
#64. You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields
Saddam Hussein
#65. The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it ultimately deems necessary, including military, remains an article of faith among the people who guide both political parties.
Gabriel Kolko
#66. Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media.
Ralph McGehee
#67. Obamacare would never have passed without decades of massive immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn't change any minds - they changed the voters.
Ann Coulter
#68. Einstein was asked what the next war would look like. "I do not know how the Third World War will be fought," he answered, "but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks.
Walter Isaacson
#69. I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
Jimmy Carter
#70. The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#71. I would like to invite everyone for the Third World War, but fight the war with love, not with the gun, to win the world peace. We all will be a winner.
Debasish Mridha
#72. The U.S. will never be a free and happy nation while they continue to exploit and marginalize the Third World. The Third World will never be happy or free so long as there is a First World stuck in the mire of consumerism, alienation, indifference. (Clodovis Boff, p. 161)
Mev Puleo
#73. It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
Roger Moore
#74. the ghetto should never come with a photo. The Third World slum is a nightmare that defies beliefs or facts, even the ones staring right at you. A vision of hell that twists and turns on itself and grooves to its own soundtrack.
Marlon James
#75. My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.
David Korten
#76. The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.
Robert Gilpin
#77. The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.
Audrey Hepburn
#78. We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World ... and the poverty in the United States as well.
Martin Sheen
#79. IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions.
Jose Andres
#80. If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.
David Korten
#81. The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package - the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity - must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug.
Edward S. Herman
#82. Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.
P. J. O'Rourke
#83. The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
Jack Kemp
#84. The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term "depopulate" means?
Chuck Palahniuk
#85. To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.
Eva Green
#86. Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.
Peter Thomas Bauer
#87. I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.
Neill Blomkamp
#88. The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.
Margaret Thatcher
#89. To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who advised the Third World leaders in post-war years.
Margaret Thatcher
#90. We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire population of California and put it in one city. Then you remove basic sanitation and medical services, and you have a ticking biological time bomb.
Richard Preston
#91. Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?
Charles Stross
#92. My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.
Santosh Kalwar
#93. The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.
Paul Krugman
#94. The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference ...
Audre Lorde
#95. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world's countries, being gay is not a crime.
Vladimir Putin
#96. Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.
John McWhorter
#97. Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.
T. S. Eliot
#98. The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#99. We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.
Jeremiah Wright
#100. Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
