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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

If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy. — Glenn Beck

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

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

(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

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry. — Jimmy Carter

My mom set up relief programs in third world countries. We would do things like go to Bogota with her instead of summer camp. — Clark Johnson

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

Ted, have you ever stayed in a Third-World village? Even for one night? — Michael Crichton

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

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

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

A single-continent world would be expected to contain only about a third as many mammalian species as currently exist. — Elizabeth Kolbert

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

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

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

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

Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies. — Lendon Smith

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

If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term. — Robert Dallek

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful. — Jeff Bezos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Those who replace love in people's life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit "pious". — Alireza Salehi Nejad

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

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

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

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

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

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

I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool. — Joan Rivers

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque. — Mason Cooley

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

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

Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy. — Paul Provenza

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions. — Pauline Hanson

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

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

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

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

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

I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends. — Isabelle Fuhrman

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

Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country. — Josh Bernstein

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices. — Donna Brazile

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

People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us. — Rachel Corrie

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

We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world! — Neal Cassady

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

Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation. — Ani DiFranco

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

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

Let me welcome you to my first country, my Third World. — Miguel Syjuco

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

Canada now calls itself an 'emerging energy superpower.' In reality, it is nothing more than a Third World energy supermarket. — Andrew Nikiforuk

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

We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory. — Mary McAleese

Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people. — Miriam Schapiro

We are trying to prevent a third world war. — Harry S. Truman

We're a superpower with a Third World grid. — Bill Richardson

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

Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers. — Cherrie Moraga

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

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