The Third World Quotes: top 89 famous quotes about The Third World

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What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road. — P. J. O'Rourke

The only difference between Detroit and the Third World in terms of corruption is Detroit don't have no goats in the streets. — Charlie LeDuff

What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook. — James G. Stavridis

Quick, make a wish.
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.
Remake the world. — Jandy Nelson

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries. — Terry Southern

Third World is a state of the mind and until we change our attitude as Africans, if there is a fourth, fifth and even sixth world, we will be in it. — Patrick L.O. Lumumba

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

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world's countries, being gay is not a crime. — Vladimir Putin

(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart. — Lorrie Moore

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world. — Joseph Rotblat

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

Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It's the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for a visitor. — Chelsea Handler

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World. — Jimmy Carter

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

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten. — Patricia Highsmith

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third. — T. S. Eliot

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

I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem. — Jimmy Carr

[Los Angeles] the world's biggest third-class city ... — John D. MacDonald

To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right. — Eva Green

Ruth Levinson Third grade teacher. She believes in me and I can be anything I want when I grow up. I can even change the world. — Nicholas Sparks

My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human. — Santosh Kalwar

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere. — Dean Rusk

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre. — Henry Miller

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world. — Norman Finkelstein

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. — Arthur C. Clarke

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians. — P. J. O'Rourke

This wasn't the Dark Ages, and she wasn't living in a third world nation where women didn't have any rights and were treated unequally. — Missy Lyons

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] — John F. Kennedy

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

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. — Malcolm Gladwell

U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation — Henry A. Kissinger

There's a reason the Third World came in third. — Jim Goad

Pious" is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way. — Ferdinand Marcos

I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks! — Albert Einstein

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries. — Nora Ephron

Thailand's seafood industry is the third largest in the world. And much of it is ending up on our dinner tables. — Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

For the children around the world without a home, say a prayer tonight. — Third Day

The third world is not a reality, but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt

When you have both eyes closed to the world, a third eye opens in your heart. — Elif Shafak

I think I was the third person in the world to get a Kindle, and I hated it from the minute I got it. — Joan Rivers

We tell ourselves zombie stories to remind us we shouldn't live beyond the natural boundaries of life - or seek a third stage of life in this world. — Stephen Graham Jones

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. — Jeremiah Wright

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war. — Ronald Reagan

We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out. — Gwenn Wright

The uncompromising pride of the Third Reich had been broken by the world-wide collaboration of people not avid of conquest, but of freedom. — Miklos Nyiszli

This man [Barack Obama] does not have the interests of our country. That's not his agenda. His agenda is to bring us down to a third-world country. — Ted Cruz

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. — Joe Bob Briggs

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

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well. — Margaret Thatcher

Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery. — Auliq Ice

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World. — Martin Sheen

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb. — Richard Eyre

The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland! — Christopher Titus

WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT OF the United States during the Third World War? — Kiera Cass

The third most boring thing in the entire world is your sorry-assed past. — Chuck Palahniuk

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty. — Fidel Castro

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

Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To be a child of the Third World is to be aware of the many different constituencies you have and how honesty and truth must always depend on context. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Princess, the contents of your shoe closet would break the budgets of a lot of third world countries - Jake Malone — Mackenzie Crowne

I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)? — Isabel Allende

Every man has three worlds. What he perceives, what he shows to the world and his reality. The third one is the mystery to be lived. — Harshit Walia

He glared at me as if I were solely responsible for the food shortage not only at the opening, but in several third world countries on top of it. — Nicole Castle

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming. — Bjorn Lomborg

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

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

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World. — Paul Krugman

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. — Roger Moore

If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate? — Joseph Heller

My third maxim was to try always to master myself rather than fortune and change my desires rather than changing how things stand in the world. — Rene Descartes

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world. — Victor Davis Hanson

It has been said that large staffs are the invariable sign of bad armies. — David Fraser

America was becoming the world's best-defended Third World country, and the best and the brightest were collaborating in the process. — Norman Spinrad

During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy. — Stephen Kinzer

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world. — Laozi

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation. — Bjorn Lomborg

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever. — Buchi Emecheta

I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks. — Burt Reynolds

I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones. — Susan Minot

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical. — Bertrand Russell

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea. — John Gimlette

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail. — Harry Belafonte

The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference ... — Audre Lorde

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World. — Fidel Castro

In God's third day we should reveal God to the world around us. — Sunday Adelaja

I move through the third world, my third eye's the guiding light / Invite the fight, we all die tonight — Inspectah Deck