Third World Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

  Joan Rivers

  Country, Children, Thinking

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• We are trying to prevent a third world war.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Trying, World

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• To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

  Jimi Hendrix

  Mean, Hair, Ties

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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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• 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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• After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

  Jim Harrison

  Travel, Reality, Perception

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• We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

  Pauline Hanson

  Country, World, Firsts

  Pauline Hanson's maiden speech to the House of Representatives in the Australian Federal Government, www.sbs.com.au. September 10, 1996.

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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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• If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!

  Harvey Mackay

  Gossip, World, Might

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• Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

  Peter Thomas Bauer

  Progress, Poverty, West

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• Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have a change of heart, just a change of icons from Stalin to third world tyrants. The homicidal and sadistic Che Guevara is still held up as a hero.

  Jamie Glazov

  Hero, Heart, Tyrants

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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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• Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.

  Ani DiFranco

  Play, World, Explanation

  Song: Self Evident

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• You're going to see crime levels in America that are going to rival that of a Third World country. Welcome Mexico City. You're going to start seeing people being kidnapped in this country like they do in other underdeveloping nations. It's going to be very violent in America.

  Gerald Celente

  Country, Cities, America

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• I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.

  Mark Skousen

  New York, Airports, Cities

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