First World Quotes

89 quotes by 84 authors

The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in… — Steven Pinker
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think… — Vladimir Putin
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed… — Gore Vidal
'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet.… — Neill Blomkamp
There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just… — Neill Blomkamp
During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing… — Chuck Palahniuk
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,… — Mary Oliver
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. — Chris Cleave
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North… — David Nicholls
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. — Whittaker Chambers
I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual… — Peter Blair Henry
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than… — Laurie R. King
Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt had had a… — George W. S. Trow
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. — Clint Eastwood
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. — Noam Chomsky
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between… — Jill Lepore
Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title. — Joel Parkinson
As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa and Central and Southeast Asia… — Michael Hastings
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us… — Madison Smartt Bell
We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory. — Mary McAleese

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