Third World Quotes - Page 8

• 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

  Believe, Practice, Wish

  Christopher Hitchens (1995). “The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice”, p.49, Verso

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• I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.

  Joe Hill

  Powerful, Adventure, Snakes

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• Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.

  Martin Sheen

  Pain, Emotional, Common Humanity

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• 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

  People, Humanity, Suffering

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• With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters are spared the consequences of their stupid investments. The global economy is a rigged game, rigged so Third World politicians, rich investors and global corporations win - and U.S. taxpayers lose.

  Pat Buchanan

  Wall, Stupid, Winning

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• The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.

  Craig Reucassel

  Media, Firsts, Stories

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• There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names which make the problems sound like they’re taking place in a different world: they make people not care about other people dying of starvation by calling the place the dying live “the third world.

  Craig Stone

  Names, People, Evil

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• Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.

  Paul Provenza

  Country, Children, Democracy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Three, World, Hussein

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Gulf War" by Charles Jaco, (p. 23), 2002.

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• Proper driving etiquette demands that you basically get close enough to a car in front of you at a busy intersection that it would mean that in certain third-world countries, or South Carolina, you would have to get married.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Country, Mean, Car

  Celia Rivenbark (2013). “Rude Bitches Make Me Tired: Slightly Profane and Entirely Logical Answers to Modern Etiquette Dilemmas”, p.156, Macmillan

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• There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the schools is great, but it may be more important to put teachers in the schools.

  Terry Winograd

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  "An Interview with Terry Winograd: Convergence, Ambient Technology, and Success in Innovation". ubiquity.acm.org. October 2008.

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• 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

  Evil, World, States

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.304, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Reality, Kyoto Protocol, Environmental

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• We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism....

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Rights, Government

  "A People's History of the United States". Book by Howard Zinn, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1980.

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• We are trying to prevent a third world war.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Trying, World

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• We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn't cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn't cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  War, Hands, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

  Peter Blair Henry

  Country, Class, People

  Peter Blair Henry, Peter Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.6, Basic Books

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• If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.

  Glenn Beck

  Country, World, Stuff

  "Take the 'The Story of Stuff' Quiz". "The Glenn Beck Program" with Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2009.

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• People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Country, Fighting, Government

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• I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.

  Kenna

  Perseverance, Real, Hard Work

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

  Mason Cooley

  Poverty, Tin, World

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• U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation

  Henry A. Kissinger

  World, Should, Depopulation

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• Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  World, Thirds

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.66, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent or have stated some bromides glossing over the serious shortcomings of "our" side, such as racism, social injustice, extreme income disparities, the exploitation of the Third World, and environmental degradation.

  Mario Bunge

  War, Racism, Political

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

  Josh Bernstein

  Country, World, Disease

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