Underdeveloped Country Quotes

#1. India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

Shashi Tharoor

#2. In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.

George Mikes

#3. In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

Jonathan Raban

#4. I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

Thomas R. Insel

#5. Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

Robert Kiyosaki

#6. 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

#7. Is it my job to feed my neighbour's child? I don't think so,

James Moore

#8. In life I will fall, I will backslide, but mark my word I will never give up.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#9. His father knew every place in the boy where a word would fester.

John Steinbeck

#10. We may forget our dead, but dead will never forget us. They call upon us from the border of unknown, reminding us of our solemn duties in fulfilling their hopes

Pierre Van Paassen

#11. 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

#12. It feels like I have this priceless gift and I want to share it with others but others think it's a piece of junk.

Michelle N. Onuorah

#13. I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.

Brion James

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

Abraham Maslow

#17. The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#18. Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ... turn Vietnam into a developed country in the coming decades.

Tran Duc Luong

#19. When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on the beach.

Amy Childs

#20. 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

#21. For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

Lady Bird Johnson

#22. You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finally weed out all the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.

Jen Lancaster

#23. Reading Dostoyevsky is like sitting in the front row of a theater, where the actors' spit lands on your face.

Charles Baxter

#24. The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.

Emma Watson

#25. Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

Will Self

#26. In the middle column, the colony ships she and her fleet had taken: the Bedyadat Jadida, out of Luna. The John Galt and the Mark Watney, out of Mars. The

James S.A. Corey

#27. When I look at myself in the mirror, I wonder where everything has gone. Even the things I used to remember with so much clarity now seem dimmer. What happens to memory when it vanishes? What happens to events when everyone who remembers them ceases to remember?

Dean Francis Alfar

#28. 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