Top 60 Third World Quotes

I can imagine people in Third World countries looking at, you know, someone like Hillary Clinton raising $35 million for her presidential campaign that goes to really, you know, nonproductive means, and they see that, and they just – it’s just really immoral, I believe.

I knit for Caps for Good – a charity that gives hats to Third World babies – while I watch movies with friends.

I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World… and the poverty in the United States as well.

In 2004, I predicted in a nationally televised conference in Washington, D.C., that the U.S. would be a Third World country in 20 years.

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.

In two years, there were 22 military coups d’etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d’etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.

My dad’s main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

On bad days, I think I’d like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, ‘Yeah, right, I’m going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.’ No. No.

Having the opportunity to join the FOX family as a soccer analyst in their Moscow studio for what will be my third World Cup is amazing.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

I excelled in finding and acquiring secret information that I obtained in brush passes, dead drops, or in meetings in dusty alleys of third world capitals.

I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say ‘OK, there’s that problem over there, let’s just close our eyes’ – we cannot do that.

I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.

The difficult part was getting the people to change their habits so that they behaved more like first world citizens, not like third world citizens spitting and littering all over the place.

Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you’re in the United States of America. You would certainly say you’re in a Third World country.

So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.

Carrying an automatic weapon in a Third World country beyond the easy reach of higher authority? The job description is like a bug light to borderline personalities.

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.

I don’t mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don’t believe they behave well.

To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.

We’re a superpower with a Third World grid.

As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view of Third World countries are never expressed. We don’t have that possibility, sometimes, to spread what we feel and how we see things.

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 know what I mean?

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.

To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the ‘Third World,’ is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.

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 teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

The Democrats want to bring in the Third World because these are, by and large, people who have no experience with Constitutional democracy.

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 got to climb.

I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I’m just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

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 the Third World – a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

I’m politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There’s a reasonable shot that – because of his money – we will cure malaria.

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it’s not. it’s the United States of America.

Endorsing Ronald Reagan in 1980, Kissinger threw in with America’s new militarists, who would jump-start a revived Cold War and drive to retake the Third World.

While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.

The Caribbean is all Third World islands and it’s very tough to raise the money for sports.

The sources of Islamism’s strength include the fact that it is a response to the oppression of the Third World as a whole.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

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 that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We’re so self-focused.

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 majority in this world. We should be the ‘first world.’

I’m not only a person of color, I’m also a woman. And I’m not only a woman, I’m also a woman from the Third World. All those elements put together means I have a lot to do.

Many, indeed most, inhabitants of the Third World, don’t necessarily share our ideas and beliefs; others pay lip service, but don’t really comprehend them. There are exceptions of course, but most people are not exceptional.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries’ failure to advance.

Canada now calls itself an ’emerging energy superpower.’ In reality, it is nothing more than a Third World energy supermarket.

I think that winning a third World Championship would really take me up to another level in the sport.