“Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.” WorldYearsChildrenProblemEarthBornEconomyAirWasteResourcesBuiltAspectThirdsIndiaTwentiesWestAverageToxicFourthConsumptionConsumerismDeliberateOverconsumptionOverpopulationAmerican EconomyToxic Waste Author:Richard J. Foster
“If you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.” IfsEndsLanguageNaturalResultsSpeechThirdsIndiaPatternsSentencesPhrasesCharacteristicsReachingAppropriateUrbanJuggling Author:Salman Rushdie
“If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not.” IfsWorldIdeasPainTogetherNationsCausesKnownCreativeProjectsThirdsIndiaGoldenRecognitionDevelopingIndianDirtyThriveDisgustingGlobesPatriotMillionaireThird WorldWesternersDeveloped NationsSlumdog Millionaire Author:Amitabh Bachchan
“What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook.” PeopleWorldNationsMillionsThirdsIndiaChinaChina And India Author:James G. Stavridis
“We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people.... If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens” PeopleIfsLanguageCitizensThirdsIndiaRateStrikesTreatedOfficialsThunderHindi Author:C. N. Annadurai
“Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.” WorldYearsJobsAmericaAsksOpportunityLettersThirdsIndiaRetardedPrecociousJob OpportunitiesOpportunity In America Author:Jean Houston
“The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.” WorldHelpingMovingLanguageGrowsStreetsCrimeDiseasePicksAppreciateThirdsIndiaCloudsLiftsParisBrownImmigrantsLos AngelesStakesToxicMultipleThird WorldImportsCalcuttaIlliteracyBombayStranglingQuagmireStreets Of Paris Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“India has always maintained that there will be no third party in Indo-Pak talks. Hurriyat cannot be a party.” PartyThirdsIndiaThird Parties Author:Sushma Swaraj
“On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.” PeopleSufferingThirdsIndiaI Realized Author:Tina Turner
“The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.” WorldFirstsPovertyStruggleIssuesProgressModernStrangeDevelopmentThirdsIndiaSplitsCompelledEquationsReductionLinearModern ScienceManpowerLinear Equations Author:Vandana Shiva
“Why not look at Indonesia? It will be the third biggest country in the world in population in 25 years' time - after India and China.” WorldYearsLooksCountryThirdsIndiaPopulationChinaWhy NotIndonesia Author:Martin Sorrell
“We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.” EarthChristianBeliefChristianityDemocracyThirdsIndiaIslamicDependentIndonesia Author:Jimmy Carter
“What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, “I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.”” PeopleIfsWorldWantPersonsHelpingLightWifeThirdsIndiaAbandonedComebackThird WorldProminentLeper Author:Gail Collins
“Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in the world—somewhere between India and the United States. Who’s sending missionaries to that country? Who’s planting churches there?” WorldCountryStatesChurchUnitedUnited StatesMembersThirdsIndiaPopulationBillions Author:Phil Cooke