Hannah Arendt Quotes

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.

What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.

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

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

The developing world is poor. It needs capital.

We see a small number of countries getting rich at the cost of impoverishment of a large number of other countries.

I believe the conservatives need to push back against the ungrateful habit of blaming the West by pointing repeatedly to the self-inflicted wounds of the Third World.

There's a reason the Third World came in third.

I feel great identification with the developing world.

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

I want the voice of developing countries to be stronger.

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

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

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

The combined Gross Domestic Product of forty-eight countries is less than the wealth of the three richest people in the world. Fifteen billionaires have assets greater than the total national income of Africa, south of the Sahara. Thirty-two people own more than the annual income of everyone who lives in South Asia.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

We go from summit to summit, and our people go from abyss to abyss … the drama of terrible underdevelopment.

Third world kids are dying today to pay off the debt.

Africa, Asia and the Middle East—the lands of the rising people.