Underdevelopment Quotes

• Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.

  Pope John Paul II

  Civilization, Availability, People

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• The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.

  Raila Odinga

  Mediocrity, Responsible, Has Beens

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• The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always and everywhere imply more privileges for a few... Underdevelopment is the result of a state of mind common to both socialist and capitalist countries. Present development goals are neither desirable nor reasonable. Unfortunately antiimperialism is no antidote.

  Ivan Illich

  Country, Goal, Mind

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• 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

  Country, People, History

  Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.27, Penguin Books India

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• When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which seeps through into everyday life via all kinds of channels.

  Kode9

  Country, War, Everyday

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Underdevelopment is a lack of maintenance.

  Lucero Isaac

  Practice, Maintenance

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