Rich Countries Quotes

A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

Gustavo Petro

Country, Car, Use

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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

Rand Paul

Country, People, Liberty

"Rand Paul: Foreign Aid Goes From Poor People In Rich Countries To Rich People In Poor Countries". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 3, 2013.

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Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

Chris Kyle

Country, Oil, Poor

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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Manmohan Singh

Country, Powerful, People

"Manmohan’s India" by Hartosh Singh Bal, www.openthemagazine.com. August 08, 2009.

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Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is the incredible iniquity between poor countries and rich countries on this planet.

Bill McKibben

Country, Two, West

Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Alexandra Paul

Country, Children, Bed

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The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

Noam Chomsky

Country, Educational, Achievement

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Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many instances, customers from rich countries circumventing their national laws to exploit children in other countries. Sex tourism has spread its illicit wings wide, and paedophiles search for their victims in all parts of the globe. The problem is compounded by the criminal networks which benefit from the trade in children, and by collusion and corruption in many national settings.

Vitit Muntarbhorn

Country, Sex, Children

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I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas

Emma Thompson

Country, Thinking, America

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Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

Ron Paul

Country, Giving, People

Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.342, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the privileged elites of another country. As someone once said: foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a poor country.

Michael Parenti

Country, People, Giving

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If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of humanity. The big world corporations are busy doing it...The production, selling, consumption, accumulation, wastes' and advertisement explosions in the western rich countries and the continued population explosion in the poor countries will turn into major catastrophes.

Robert Muller

Country, Mean, Humanity

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Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.

Peter Thomas Bauer

Country, Challenges, Inspire

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Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

Sebastian Pinera

Country, Oil, Energy

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I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.

Alyssa Milano

Country, Children, Hardship

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Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem. Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed.

Barbara Stocking

Country, Loss, Creating

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Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

P. J. O'Rourke

Country, Phones, Nokia

"P.J. O'Rourke Takes On 'The Wealth of Nations'". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007.

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Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.

Herman E. Daly

Wise, Country, Real

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It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Paul Farmer

Country, People, Giving

"Founder, Partners In Health". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 03, 2009.

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In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

Orhan Pamuk

Country, Stupid, Ideas

FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Dec 18, 2016

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Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it`s about happiness.` `But if you don`t have any principles, and if you don`t have faith, you can`t be happy at all,` said Kadife. `That`s true. But in a brutal country like ours, where human life is cheap, it`s stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.` `Actually, it`s the other way round. In a poor country, people`s sole consolation comes from their beliefs.

Orhan Pamuk

Country, Stupid, Ideas

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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

Samuel Johnson

Country, War, People

Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.354

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Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only generate monsters: bitterness, intolerance, fundamentalism, and the damaging denial of current hegemonies.The poor must be given reasons to live, not to kill or die.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Country, Strong, War

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England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not even England has the money nowadays to fight a world war. What should England fight for? You don't get yourself killed over an ally.

Adolf Hitler

Country, Military, War

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What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?... In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?

Maurice Strong

Change, Country, Responsibility

"Environmentalism: Ideology and Power". Book by Donald Gibson, 2002.

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