Third World Quotes

167 Third World quotes by 144 unique authors

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding… — Jeremiah
Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that… — Katherine Schwarzenegger
The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1. — Craig Reucassel
There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names which make the… — Craig Stone
There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure… — Malcolm Gladwell
What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a… — Gail Collins
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… — Richard Eyre
You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev… — Alexander Haig
There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally… — Michael Haneke
We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions. — Pauline Hanson
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
To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you… — Jimi Hendrix
The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer… — Jack Kemp
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation. — Bjorn Lomborg
So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming. — Bjorn Lomborg
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music.… — Miriam Makeba
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. — Roger Moore
In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool. — Joan Rivers
And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture… — Martin Sheen
Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well. — Rachel Weisz
We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our… — Vivienne Westwood
'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
(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

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