{"quotes":[{"text":"Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of the United Nations, the unreliability of Europe, the perfidy of the Third World and the need for nuclear defense policy? Question: Which Mediterranean government is Ronald Reagan trying, with the help of George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger, to replace with a government led by a party which professes socialism and which contains extreme leftists?If you answered 'the government of Israel' to both of the above, you know more about political and international irony than the President does.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["1980s","caspar-weinberger","cold-war","europe","george-p-shultz","israel","israel-united-states-relations","leftism","mediterranean-sea","national-missile-defense","presidency-of-ronald-reagan","ronald-reagan","socialism","soviet-union","terrorism","third-world","united-nations","united-states"],"id":17800,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","aspiration","aspire","axiom","axioms","boy","boys","capitalism","capitalistic","carbon-emissions","carbon-footprint","civilization","countries","country","deep","develop","developed","developed-countries","developed-country","dictum","dictums","economic-growth","economics","economies","economy","emission","environment","epigram","epigrams","first-world","funny","gdp","global-warming","gnome","gnomes","gnp","gross-domestic-product","gross-national-product","growth","humor","humorous","humour","industrialization","industrialized","industry","insightful","look-up-to","made-me-think","make-you-think","man","maxim","maxims","men","ozone-layer","philosopher","pollution","poor","poverty","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","rich","riches","role-model","role-models","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","second-world","south-africa","south-african","third-world","thought-provoking","thoughtful","underdeveloped","underdeveloped-countries","underdeveloped-country","wealth","wealthy"],"id":45750,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"They' hate us because they feel--and 'they' are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much more, and that we practice a kind of passive-aggressive violence on the Third World. We do this by, for example, demonizing tobacco as poison here while promoting cigarettes in Asia; inflating produce prices by paying farmers not to grow food as millions go hungry worldwide; skimping on quality and then imposing tariffs on foreign products made better or cheaper than our own; padding corporate profits through Third World sweatshops; letting drug companies stand by as millions die of AIDS in Africa to keep prices up on lifesaving drugs; and on and on.  We do, upon reaching a very high comfort level, mostly choose to go from ten to eleven instead of helping another guy far away go from zero to.","author":"Bill Maher","tags":["charity","extremism","hate","ignorance","irresponsible","passive-aggressive","poverty","poverty-and-politics","suffering","third-world","violence"],"id":49018,"author_id":"Bill+Maher"},{"text":"First, people should open their eyes to see structural sin, which is the very existence of a First and Third World. As long as there's a First World, there won't be peace because there won't be justice or sharing. (Pedro Casaldaliga, p. 243).","author":"Mev Puleo","tags":["first-world","peace","sin","third-world"],"id":64919,"author_id":"Mev+Puleo"},{"text":"We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["allow","brick","building","buildings","clay","durable","hut","live","live-life","made","more","mud","philosophical","poor","poverty","poverty-wealth","reconstructed","reconstruction","third-world","wisdom","wisdom","world"],"id":73455,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Illness and death are not the only consequences of the lack of access to water; it also hinders education and economic development. Widespread illness makes countries less productive, more dependent on outside aid, and less able to lift themselves out of poverty. According to the United Nations, one of the main reasons girls do not go to school in sub-Saharan Africa is that they have to spend so much time fetching water from distant wells and carrying it home.","author":"Tom Standage","tags":["poverty","third-world","water"],"id":88741,"author_id":"Tom+Standage"},{"text":"While the opportunity to improve yourself and your situation is a great thing, our striving to build perfect lives seems to have morphed into perfectionism so focused on itself that we forget about others in the world. We work so hard to build the ultimate luxury sedan, to embody society's standard of beauty, and to achieve historical scientific breakthroughs that we conveniently forget our family members in other parts of the world who must walk miles each day in their only set of clothing for the opportunity to go to school.","author":"Holly Sprink","tags":["christianity","first-world","god","love","mindfulness","third-world"],"id":101825,"author_id":"Holly+Sprink"},{"text":"Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.","author":"Alireza Salehi Nejad","tags":["capability","freedom","liberation","liberty","third-world"],"id":104828,"author_id":"Alireza+Salehi+Nejad"},{"text":"My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.","author":"Santosh Kalwar","tags":["being-human","first-world","humanism","humanity","humanity-and-society","nationalism","politics","second-world","third-world"],"id":207750,"author_id":"Santosh+Kalwar"},{"text":"How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the 'market' put a price on things - food, clothes, electricity, running water - when it doesn't take into account the REAL cost of production?","author":"Arundhati Roy","tags":["capitalism","cities","colonialism","exploitation","first-world","human-rights","humanity","international-","international-relations","manipulation","nature","third-world","women"],"id":276571,"author_id":"Arundhati+Roy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}