Third World Quotes - Page 7

• In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Korea, Trying

  Harry S. Truman, Howard B. Furer, United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) (1970). “Harry S. Truman, 1884- : chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 percent, while in a Third World War 90-95 percent would be civilians.

  Colin Ward

  War, America, Would Be

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• The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

  Nora Ephron

  Country, Cities, America

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• Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Brother, New York, Ideas

  "Filmgoers flock to anti-Obama doc" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 24, 2012.

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• I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends.

  Isabelle Fuhrman

  Baby, Giving, Watches

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• The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

  Harry Belafonte

  Jail, Guy, World

  "Harry Belafonte, MSNBC criticized over 'jailing Republicans' remarks". www.foxnews.com. December 14, 2012.

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• For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for a moment and hear what some people in the third world countries would like to make them happier. 1. Having enough to eat so when you go to sleep at night your stomach doesn't ach. 2. Having shoes on your feet and any kind of clothing to keep the cold out. 3. Having a roof over your head. 4. Having the hope that you'll be lucky enough to get some kind of an education. 5. Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Dream, Country, Believe

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• Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw? Qaddafi was the thug who came in from the cold, the one who (in the wake of Saddam's fall) renounced his nuclear program and was supposedly rehabilitated in the chancelleries of the West. He was a strong partner in the war on terrorism, according to U.S. diplomats. And what did Washington do? They overthrew him anyway.

  Mark Steyn

  Strong, War, Party

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• Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girl, Country, Silly

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• We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.

  David Graeber

  Suicidal, Energy, Viruses

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• Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand - will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not.

  Arthur Kemp

  Russia, Europe, America

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• Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Hate, Writing, Eye

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• In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

  Fidel Castro

  People, Three, World

  "Fidel Castro on the World Economy". Speech in Riverside Church, Harlem, New York City, www.theglobalist.com. November 23, 2000.

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• South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.

  Rory Carroll

  Anxiety, Racist, World

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• Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.

  Stuart Dybek

  Revenge, Book, Cities

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• Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World

  Arundhati Roy

  Business, Choices, Alternatives

  Arundhati Roy (2001). “Power Politics: The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin”, D C Books

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• Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

  Michael Robotham

  Children, Hair, Parent

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• 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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• When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.

  Yukio Mishima

  Two, People, Captivity

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• all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Television, World

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.92, Dial Press

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• Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It’s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for a visitor.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Country, Humor

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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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• I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Struggle, Data, Two

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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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• 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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