Quotes About Underdeveloped Countries

#1. The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.

Dennis C. Blair

#2. The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.

Paul A. Baran

#3. Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

Saul Bellow

#4. How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.

Che Guevara

#5. The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#6. The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed ... The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.

E.F. Schumacher

#7. It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural course for nations, and diplomats, and those who publish newspapers, to speak to the established order. Seeking out the young requires a conscious effort.

Robert Kennedy

#8. In the underdeveloped countries, we have young men and women, many of them of capacity but without opportunity to improve themselves. They cannot do so without help.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#9. The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.

Gustavo Gutierrez

#10. If I had been as capable of trust as I am susceptible to fear I might have learned something new or some truth so very old we have all forgotten it.

Edward Abbey

#11. It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

Drew Barrymore

#12. So sue me, a girl could only think so rationally after a text like that.

Dahlia Adler

#13. The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

Cassandra Clare

#14. So the cold barracks were spared, lonely as they were, and the armories were unscathed, empty as they were, and the larders went unmolested, depleted as they were, and only the common people burned.

Mike S. Elton

#15. The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don't understand. Thoughts that aren't even true - that aren't really how we feel - but they're running through our heads anyway because they're interesting to think about.

Jay Asher

#17. These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.

Payne Stewart

#18. Muslims are just as peace-loving as the Christians, Hindus, Jews or Buddhists. It's the fundamentalists from whom people should keep distance, not the muslims.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. If tomorrow the Muslims of France were to convert to Catholicism or renounce all religion, it wouldn't make the least bit of difference to the racists - they would continue to hold these foreigners or French citizens of foreign descent responsible for every affliction.

Charb

#20. They departed in the form of white smoke, rose easily upward, waved their hands in parting, and viewed with pity all those who remained behind. Then they danced gaily in celebration of their new freedom, before disintegrating into the air.

Joseph Bau

#21. One of the most damaging myths of our time is that poor countries live in poverty because of a conspiracy of the rich countries, who arrange things so as to keep them underdeveloped, in order to exploit them.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#22. There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.

Charles Duhigg

#23. Love is a sweet aroma, it fills the room with a wonderful atmosphere. Happy Valentines Day.

Euginia Herlihy

#24. Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity.

Richard Dawkins

#25. There is no greater joy in life than the joy of creating something.

Abhay Kumar

#26. Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don't need a time machine to go back to the past; they are already in there, in the very distant and dark past!

Mehmet Murat Ildan