Two Thirds World Quotes

#1. We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#2. But it isn't enough to be all right in this world; you've got to look all right as well, because two-thirds of success is making people think you are all right.

George Horace Lorimer

#3. Women are one-half of the world's people; they do two-thirds of the world's work; they earn one-tenth of the world's income; they own one one-hundredth of the world's property.

Peggy Orenstein

#4. In 1997, the government spent $37 billion on military research and development, nearly two-thirds of what the entire world spent on the same. In

Morris Berman

#5. While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

Dean Rusk

#6. I'm telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

Chris Cleave

#7. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered. If all young adults were required to spend two weeks in a foreign country, two-thirds of the world's diplomatic problems could be solved. It wouldn't matter what country they visited or what they did during their stays.

Andrew Solomon

#8. You see, my friends ... you begin to ask the questions, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the iron ore?' You begin to ask the question, 'Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?'

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. By the 1830s, when the British emancipationists finally put an end to the slave trade, some twelve and a half million Africans had been shipped off as slaves to the New World; two-thirds of them worked and died growing and refining sugar.

Gary Taubes

#10. The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.

Henry Miller

#11. You have 60 countries in the world with a terrorist problem. That's two-thirds of the world. We have this group in Basilan, which is a small island in the far south of the Philippines, and the island itself has a population of - what? - 300,000.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#12. In 1775 Asia accounted for 80 per cent of the world economy. The combined economies of India and China alone represented two-thirds of global production. In comparison, Europe was an economic dwarf.

Yuval Noah Harari

#13. In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.

Mo Ibrahim

#14. We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

Jimmy Carter

#15. Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

Barber Conable

#16. Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce

#17. About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.

H.G.Wells

#18. Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!

Neale Donald Walsch

#19. So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

Wess Stafford

#20. The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.

Dick Cheney

#21. Today we can only hear the voices and witness the imaginations of one-third of the world's people. We are all being robbed of the creativity and potential of the two-thirds of the world not yet online. Tomorrow, if we succeed, the Internet will truly represent everyone.

Mark Zuckerberg

#22. The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. We just happen to to forget all that. Don't you agree? Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface: the skin.

Haruki Murakami

#23. Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.

J.C. Ryle

#24. Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing ... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Jimmy Carter

#25. One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

Dean Rusk

#26. Morocco, one of the more fully developed countries in Africa, with a solid infrastructure and a population of about 27 million, holds roughly two thirds of the world's reserves of phosphate rock - phosphate deposits are to Morocco as oil is to Venezuela - and dominates the world market in this vital

Jim Rogers

#27. Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

Peter Benenson

#28. Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

Dean Rusk

#29. Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

Herman Melville

#30. Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

Isabel Allende