First World Quotes

89 quotes by 84 authors

It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that… — J. Maarten Troost
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output… — John Boyd Orr
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. — Gerald Durrell
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of… — Douglas Hurd
It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second-… — Jeremy Rifkin
A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he… — Art Linkletter
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who… — Rene Cassin
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war… — Fritz Sauckel
I'm really happy that it's in Russia. I've had a lot of success here. I had my first world championships here when I was younger… — Hayley Wickenheiser
Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-Peopleâ€™s sessions at the void deck. So much… — Low Thia Khiang
The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and… — Pele
My first world title gave me the confidence to go and do bigger and better things. — Ricky Hatton
We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary! — Catherine DeVrye
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticizing… — Margaret Thatcher
It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the… — Noam Chomsky
Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years… — James Lovelock
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities. — Wayne Swan
The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything. — Anais Nin
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild

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