First World Quotes
89 quotes by 84 authors
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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in…
— Emily Greene Balch
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I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first…
— Javier Bardem
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Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.
— Anthony Bourdain
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the…
— H. Rap Brown
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They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy…
— Sparky Anderson
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The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become…
— Martin Sheen
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I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create the First World…
— David Icke
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American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were…
— Colin Ward
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The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages,…
— Bill Gates
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In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and…
— Margot Livesey
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The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim fathers and Americans…
— Lucy Worsley
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Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles…
— Geoffrey Perret
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The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but…
— Edmond Taylor
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South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with…
— Rory Carroll
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The question we Americans need to address, before it is answered for us, is: Does this First World nation wish to become a Third World…
— Pat Buchanan
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This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places — as technology evolves and…
— Satya Nadella
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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
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There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of…
— Ernst Haeckel
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As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too…
— Jodi Picoult
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Its unbelievable, I cant even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is…
— Lance Berkman
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