Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Nobody in rich countries wants to face responsibility for the lives of people in poor countries. They just want cheap groceries.” — Greg Baxter Copy Share Image
We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to show you your… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Facebook brings the Internet to Africa and poor countries, but they're only giving limited access to their own services and make money… — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
The main difference lies in wage levels, which is because our workers are not yet as well trained as in other countries.… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it's about happiness.' 'But if you don't have any principles, and if you don't… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In many poor countries, if the daughter is told who she's going to marry, and told that she's going to live in… — Pietra Rivoli Copy Share Image
We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies'… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give… — Daniel Altman Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
In 2011, after spending a couple of years working at Google, I decided that I wanted to dedicate myself to helping to… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
“The geography hypothesis claims that the great divide between rich and poor countries is created by geographical differences. Many poor countries, such… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty.… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is, everybody focuses on the global warming as an environmental issue, as something outside our daily lives. But actually… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
![“We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to show you your errors.' ... We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn [from] these people.” quote by Che Guevara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/578/che-guevara-2007_country_we-should-not-go-to-the-poor-countries-a_1437957.jpg)
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