Best thirds & third-world Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

World Challenges Cities Issues New York Drink Thirds Size Focused Etc Massive New York City Ironic Traffic Airports Infrastructure Mike Jam Mayors Third World Traffic Jam

Author:Mark Skousen

“The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.”

“When a drug comes in from Canada, I wanna make sure it cures ya, not kill ya... I've got an obligation to make sure our government does everything we can to protect you. And one - my worry is that it looks like it's from Canada, and it might be from a third world.”

World Looks Doe Government Might Worry Drug Protect Thirds Obligation Cures Canada Third World Protect You

Author:George W. Bush

“Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.”

World Way Country Matter Home Motivational Perspective Walking Thirds Bubbles Third World Slums Third World Countries

Author:Katherine Schwarzenegger

“The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.”

World Firsts Stories Media Thirds Rate Disaster Third World World Life

Author:Craig Reucassel

“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.”

People World Want Giving Humans Different Problem Care Earth Evil Names Sound Leader Dying Calling Thirds Tiny Resolve Starvation Third World Different Worlds People Dying

Author:Craig Stone

“Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.”

World Children Country Democracy Thirds Spread Third World Third World Countries

Author:Paul Provenza

“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.”

“There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.”

World Shots Thirds Bills Cures Reasonable Gates Statues Third World Malaria

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“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.”

World Way Three Fields Treats Thirds Saddam Hussein Peasants Brides Third World Honeymoon

Author:Saddam Hussein

“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.”

Source: Rude Bitches Make Me Tired: Slightly Profane and Entirely Logical Answers to Modern Etiquette Dilemmas

“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.”

Thinking World May Important Problem School Teacher Computer Thirds Tendencies Distraction Third World World Problems

Author:Terry Winograd

“The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.”

World States Evil Nations Capacity Thirds Good And Evil Transforming Third World

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.”

World States Reality United United States Huge Resources Thirds Environmental Protection Transfers Third World Guise Environmental Protection Kyoto Kyoto Protocol

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“I really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles that can't be disposed of and end up on some third-world shore. And I love the heritage of them, the whole history of mass communication. Newspapers changed the world from being a really class based, feudal system to people being able to cheaply get information that informed them.”

“If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.”

“[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.”

“We're a superpower with a third world grid.”

World Thirds Third World Superpower Grids Super Power

Author:Bill Richardson

“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?”

World Way Country Thirds Third World Third World Countries

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.”

World Political Natural Resources Labor Thirds Treasure Russia Assets Immense Reserves Natural Resources Third World Chunks Juicy Cheap Labor

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.”

World Firsts Country Conditions Thirds Third World Third World Countries Living Conditions

Author:Pauline Hanson

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

World Thirds Third World

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

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