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“Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our own country. The present economy generates wars to protect its profits and its short-term interests, while squandering the future. Unless we transform the economy, we cannot end war.”

World War Ends Country Term Interest Economy Democracy Economic Protect Economics Thirds Profit Short Term Transforming Third World Squandering

Author:Starhawk

“I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?”

Thinking World Humans Views Attitude Poverty Conditions Thirds Slavery Bother Rejects Human Condition Doomed Immoral Starvation Third World Verge Facets Why Bother

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world ... whether its technological system is capitalist or communist ... and a host world. Native peoples, who occupy more land, make up the host world.”

World Firsts Land Thirds Native Communist Host Capitalist Technological Imperialism Third World

Author:Winona LaDuke

“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.”

“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....”

“I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.”

World Persons Grew Grew Up Thirds South Zone American Politics Third World Superpower Carolina South Carolina

Author:Jesse Jackson

“You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.”

Knows World Looks War Next President Clear Cold Battle Thirds Regard Crisis Following Vietnam Cold War Cuba Third World Vienna President Kennedy Jack Kennedy

Author:Alexander Haig

“Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.”

People World Country Fall Walking Thirds Glasses Nightmare Anarchy Thieves Falling Apart Farming Third World Paranoid Third World Countries Albania

Author:Paul Theroux

“Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?”

People Thinking Knows World War Standing Thirds Brilliant Lawyer War Of The Worlds World War I Negotiation Third World Dealings Third World War

Author:Yoko Ono

“By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.”

People World Trying Littles Country Helping Focus Thirds Unhappy Serving Feeding Helping People Third World Third World Countries Trying To Be Happy

Author:Ram Dass

“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.”

People World Country America Nations Levels Cities Seeing Crime Thirds Violent Welcome Mexico Rivals Third World Kidnapped Mexico City Third World Countries

Author:Gerald Celente

“I understand we're on our way to being a Third World country. Could we just stop at 'Second World' before we get there?”

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Author:Bill Maher

“Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.”

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Book:Dirty Truths

Source: Dirty Truths

“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.”

People World Feels Should Country States Done Government Fighting Given United United States Violence Thirds Western Rebel Third World State Government United States Government

Author:Yuri Kochiyama

“There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.”

Ifs World Littles Evil Conscience Sitting Thirds Guilty Luxury Hotel Third World Guilty Conscience Luxury Hotels

Author:Michael Haneke

“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.”

People World Way Real Hard Parent Dark Cities Path Streets Hard Work Thirds Perseverance Income Neighborhood Professors Secretary Estates Third World Inner City Janitor Perseverance And Hard Work

Author:Kenna

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

World Poverty Thirds Shirts Roof T Shirt Third World Tin Picturesque World Poverty

Author:Mason Cooley

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

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Author:Pauline Hanson

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

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Book:Holidays in Hell

Source: Holidays in Hell

“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.”

World Reality Travel Perception Thirds Lifetime Fascinated Funny Travel Third World Great Travel Travel The World Photography And Travel Solo Travel Perception Reality

Author:Jim Harrison

“What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.”

World Would Be Thirds Hazards Third World

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas of a proper environment and a rewarding life. Doing this, it disrupted the delicate patterns of adaptation and created problems that had not existed before.”

World Ideas Problem Environment Civilization Thirds Western Patterns East Delicate Adaptation Third World Western Civilization Near And Far

Book:Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being

Source: Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being

“The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.”

World Firsts Two Country Form Culture Conflict Thirds Borders Mexico Mexican Third World Two Worlds Merging Grate Scabs Mexican Border

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“...the plan is to engineer events, real and staged, that will create enormous fear in the countdown years to 2012. This includes a plan to start a third world war either by stimulating the Muslim world into a "holy war" against the West or by using the Chinese to cause global conflict. Maybe both.”

Source: Tales from the Time Loop: The Most Comprehensive Exposé of the Global Conspiracy Ever Written and All You Need to Know to Be Truly Free

“There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail.”

World Waiting Lines Half Fine Offers Thirds Officials Customs Jail Dozen Third World Bribe Waiting For You Fine Lines

Book:All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.”

People World Want Feels Littles Long Different Sometimes Reason Asks Poor Drug Empty Thirds Plant Peasants Wrong Things Third World Wrong Reasons

Author:George Carlin

“Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.”

World Country Three Blood Crime Source Taxes Thirds Organized Illegal Rulers Dictator Third World Switzerland Evasion Organized Crime Developed Country Tax Evasion

Author:Jean Ziegler

“I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.”

People World Mean Country Running Turns Water Thirds Hot Available Granted Turn-on Third World Running Water Third World Countries

Author:Assata Shakur

“Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with fears, or if we trust the fears of others, we'll choose a path in which our city falls into the sea, or a path in which a third world war vaporizes us, or whatever other disaster is most thrilling or horrifying or fascinating for us.”

Ifs World War Moving Fall Cities Consciousness Path Sea Possibility Please Thirds Infinite Filled Patterns Disaster War Of The Worlds Fascinating Thrilling Third World Third World War

Author:Richard Bach

“All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is insecure because the nation's identity is not secure. The nation doesn't provide the third world writer with a secure identity, because the nation is colonized, it's oppressed, it's part of somebody else's empire.”

World Problem Literature Nations Identity Thirds Fundamentals Secure Empires Oppressed Insecure Third World World Literature

Author:Mark McMorris

“The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that is compromised, something that needs to be rescued or made - these matters preoccupy the third world writer. It is seductive for a Marxist understanding of literary practice and production in the sense that it says that material culture determines literary output.”

World Want Needs Made Matter Culture Nations Understanding Practice Identity Materials Thirds Fundamentals Determine Productions Absence Horizon Third World Seductive Marxist Output

Author:Mark McMorris

“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?”

Knows World Trying Mean Happens Hair Thirds Ties Third World

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“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.”

“My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.”

“We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.”

“The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.”

“Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.”

World Should Persons Important Planets Destruction Thirds Scary Debt Corporations Global Warming Ongoing Outrage Third World Railway Uselessness Takeovers

Author:Arthur Smith

“Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?”

Thinking World Book Age Internet Thirds Agree Sells Agents Copies Print Publishers Pirate Third World Piracy

Author:Charles Stross

“With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story.”

People Thinking World Looks Has Beens Stories Might Action Lost Land Thirds Universal Appeals Might Have Been Exotic Third World Persepolis

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Nuclear weapons are to be worried about only when they're in the hands of Ronald Reagan - not so much when they're in the hands of a Third World anti-imperialist like Saddam Hussein. Can't you see?”

World Hands Weapons Thirds Nuclear Worried Nuclear Weapons Saddam Hussein Third World

Author:Jay Nordlinger

“How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.”

“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.”

“Finally, a prominent nation is taking on the homosexual agenda and rejecting it outright. A number of African nations have done the same, but third-world countries are not newsworthy to mainstream media. The irony is stunning that a Communist nation would understand that preserving the value of men and women marrying and producing children makes for demographic survival, while many American Christian leaders cower in the shadows, in fear of activist homosexuals and their leftist supporters. I say 'cheers' to the Russians on this one. That nation will probably outlive America.”

“While I am a lawyer by profession and have travelled to several countries, working and educating myself, I came from a rural background in a Third World country at a time when women were told what their place was and whose mothers enjoyed even less.”

World Country Mother Thirds Profession Lawyer Backgrounds Enjoyed Third World Third World Countries

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.”

“The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package - the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity - must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug.”

People World Resources Aspect Direct Thirds Majority Western Terror Packages Third World Complicity Free World

Book:The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda

Source: The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda

“There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.”

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

World Country Disease Thirds Liberalism Third World Third World Countries Lobotomy

Author:Josh Bernstein

“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.”

World Has Beens Poverty Progress Materials Thirds West Contact Agents Principal Third World

Author:Peter Thomas Bauer

“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.”

World Heart Stills Left Hero Thirds Monsters Tyrants 1960s Icons Third World Castro Mao Sadistic Change Of Heart Homicidal

Author:Jamie Glazov

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