Poor Countries Quotes:

It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

- Nursultan Nazarbayev

topic: Country, War, Media, Mass Media, Poor Countries

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Country, Political, Mind, Poor Countries

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

- Nicholas D. Kristof

topic: Country, Abortion, Care, Midwifery, Poor Countries

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

- Rand Paul

topic: Country, People, Rich, Limited Freedom, Foreign Aid

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

- Confucius

topic: Country, Liberty, Politics, Rulership, Wealth And Poverty

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

- Bill Gates

topic: Country, World, Poor, Poor Countries

When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.

- Gary Bauer

topic: Country, Moving, America, Poor 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.

- Omar Bongo

topic: Country, Reflection, September 11, Poor Countries, Disparity

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper...

- George McGovern

topic: Country, Brother, Responsibility, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Awareness

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

- Bill Gates

source: "Innovating to zero!". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.

topic: Carbon Dioxide, Poor Countries

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Country, Lying, Islands, Poor Countries, Niger

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

- Ron Paul

source: Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.342, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Country, Rich Countries, Giving, Rich People, Foreign Aid

If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.

- Nicholas D. Kristof

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Country, Talking, Years, Poor Countries

The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.

- Kwame Nkrumah

source: Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Neo-colonialism: the last stage of imperialism”, Nelson

topic: Country, Colonialism, Development, Poor Countries, Countries Of The World

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But lets remember that, despite being a poor country, Indias democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

- Alex Tabarrok

topic: Country, Government, People, Poor Countries

If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.

- Bill Gates

source: "Bill Gates' Goal: Get Rid Of Polio, Forever". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 13, 2010.

topic: Poor Countries

So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or more. Just to put that in perspective, that sum could have built 200 schools in poor countries around the world for kids who desperately want an education. Then Kardashian could have helped transform the world, not just entertain it. And the schools would have lasted incomparably longer than her marriage.

- Nicholas D. Kristof

topic: Country, School, Kids, Poor Countries, Access To Education

One of the greatest concerns that I had when I became President was the vast array of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union and a few other countries, and also the great proliferation of conventional weapons, non-nuclear weapons, particularly as a tremendous burden on the economies of developing or very poor countries.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Country, President, United States, Proliferation, Poor Countries

Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also infrastructure, institutions, and budgets - an unholy brew which can create dangerous security vacuums.

- Ban Ki-moon

topic: Country, Weather, Vacuums, Poor Countries, Extreme Weather

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

- Liya Kebede

topic: Country, Giving, Birth, Poor Countries, Birth Life

If the relatively rich participating countries want to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, they will have to pay at least some poor countries to reduce their emissions. Achievement of substantial reduction in this way implies international transfers of wealth on a scale well beyond anything in recorded history. There is no effective political support for such a Herculean effort, particularly in the United States.

- Henry Sylvester Jacoby

topic: Country, Kyoto, Support, Kyoto Protocol, Poor Countries

Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.

- Ha-Joon Chang

source: Ha-Joon Chang (2008). “Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity”, p.61, Random House

topic: Country, Past, Ladders, Poor Countries, Free Trade

We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time, and that only through the united efforts of our younger generation and all our people, working with their own hands, can China be made strong and prosperous within a period of several decades. The establishment of our socialist system has opened the road leading to the ideal society of the future, but to translate this ideal into reality needs hard work.

- Mao Zedong

topic: Country, Strong, Hard Work, Younger Generation, Poor Countries

Oppression makes a poor country.

- William Penn

source: William Penn (1778). “Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition”, p.75

topic: Country, Oppression, Poor, Poor Countries

The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

- Freeman Dyson

topic: Country, Technology, People, Decent Life, Poor Countries

I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.

- Ho Chi Minh

topic: Country, Needs, Vietnam, Poor Countries

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

- John Kufuor

source: John Agyekum Kufuor (2001*). “Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001”

topic: Country, People, Population, Poor Countries, Despondency

The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

- Adam Smith

source: 1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.11, conclusion.

topic: Country, Ruins, Rich, Poor Countries

The main difference lies in wage levels, which is because our workers are not yet as well trained as in other countries. We are a poor country. This is why we must accept the conditions that prevail in international markets. But our trade unions do represent the rights of workers.

- Nguyen Minh Triet

topic: Country, Lying, Rights, Poor Countries

In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried to impose small fees. There was a national student strike and the government backed down. High tuition is not an economic necessity, as is easy to show, but a debt trap is a good technique of indoctrination and control. And resisting this makes good sense.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Country, Government, Years, Poor Countries

Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.

- William Finnegan

topic: Country, Father, Kids, Poor Countries, Gilded

We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.

- Bill Gates

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Foreign Aid, Poor Countries

In many poor countries, if the daughter is told who she's going to marry, and told that she's going to live in the village with her husband's family, she really has very little opportunity to make her own decisions. If she comes for a while to work in a factory, she has her own money. In family agriculture, it's never your money. It's whatever somebody decides to give you. For many people this is tremendously valuable, because then they can step up.

- Pietra Rivoli

topic: Daughter, Country, Husband, Poor Countries

Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services.

- Daniel Altman

source: "Why the WTO Is Obsolete". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

topic: Country, Giving Up, Rich Countries, Poor Countries

While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are huge and likely growing.

- Zygmunt Bauman

source: Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

topic: Country, Differences, World, Catching Up, Poor Countries

I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the private sector, which is the biggest by far, and then the governments, you know, even in these poor countries over time has to take on these key responsibilities. How does philanthropy accelerate that? Drive the kind of innovations, make sure they get used well. So it plays this kind of special role.

- Bill Gates

source: Source: www.ctvnews.ca

topic: Poor Countries, Catching On

In 2011, after spending a couple of years working at Google, I decided that I wanted to dedicate myself to helping to transform education. I was particularly inspired by my upbringing in Guatemala, a poor country where high-quality educational opportunities are limited to those who have money.

- Luis von Ahn

topic: Country, Couple, Educational, Poor Countries, Guatemala

I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known.

- Amartya Sen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Country, Military, Thinking, Poor Countries

I still believe that workers must be the basic force which must organize and eventually transform society (along with peasants in poor countries). This is because they are the source of the profits which make capitalism what it is. They can shut the system down, and at the same time they possess the unique knowledge needed to make it work in everyone's interests.

- Michael Yates

topic: Country, Believe, Unique, Poor Countries

Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and live in relative - or absolute - comfort. In the water, that situation can get turned on its head, though. Local kids learn to surf, know the breaks, and take most or all of the best waves, fuming turistas be damned.

- William Finnegan

topic: Country, Fun, Kids, Poor Countries

Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.

- Robert Fisk

source: Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

topic: Country, Justice, Democracy, Poor Countries

Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived.

- Mario Vargas Llosa

source: "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

topic: Country, Adventure, Boys, Poor Countries

We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to show you your errors.' ... We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn [from] these people.

- Che Guevara

topic: Country, Humble, Errors, Inquiring Minds, Poor Countries

The interesting thing is, everybody focuses on the global warming as an environmental issue, as something outside our daily lives. But actually the impact of global warming is with us today. Communities are suffering. Communities in poor countries are the ones paying the price, they are not the ones who are polluting, and we need to help them adapt.

- Kofi Annan

source: Source: www.global-leaders.tv

topic: Country, Issues, Impact, Poor Countries, Environmental Issues

More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around? But more money makes its monopolistic producer (the central bank) and its earliest recipients (the government and big, government-connected banks and their major clients) richer at the expense of making the money's late and latest receivers poorer.

- Hans-Hermann Hoppe

source: "Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Impracticality of One-World Government and the Failure of Western-style Democracy". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 27, 2011.

topic: Country, Government, People, Paper Money, Poor Countries

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

- C.P. Snow

topic: Country, Eye, People, Poor Countries

My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.

- Ziggy Marley

source: FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from Feb 02, 2015

topic: Country, Father, Poor Neighborhoods, Poor Countries

Climate change hype has grave real world consequences. It gets rich countries to adopt silly policies and to impose devastating eco-imperialism on poor countries. The world's rich millions can afford environmental extremism; its poor billions can't. Climate change pseudo-science about human causality has been exposed repeatedly. What's less appreciated is that there aren't more natural disasters in need of an explanation.

- Leon Louw

topic: Country, Real, Silly, Poor Countries

Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

- Noam Chomsky

source: "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

topic: Country, Quality, Mexico, Poor Countries, High Quality

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.

- Ian Bremmer

source: Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

topic: Poor Countries