Jim Goad Quotes

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

History is full of examples of poorer nations that become wealthy by exploiting their comparative advantage in cheap labor to become globally competitive in a range of manufacturing industries.... If robots are expected to take over many of the menial jobs currently performed by people, the concern should not be for the working class in wealthy countries but for the billions living in the developing world who will now have lost the only established ladder out of poverty.

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

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

How many more infants must die every day in Africa because resources are being swallowed up in debt repayment.

What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.

I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.

Oh, poverty parts good company.