Underdeveloped Countries Quotes:

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

- Jonathan Raban

topic: Country, Air, Water, Developed Country, Air Pollution

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

- Shashi Tharoor

source: Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.27, Penguin Books India

topic: Country, People, History, Cultural Heritage, Funny But True

The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Life, Country, Keys, Urbanization, Industrialization

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

- Saul Bellow

source: "Bellow in his own words". www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2005.

topic: Love, Country, Expressing Love, Underdeveloped Countries

The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.

- Kabir Bedi

source: Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

topic: Spiritual, Country, Land, Condescending, Charmers

The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.

- Gustavo Gutiérrez

source: Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

topic: Country, Taken, Views, Underdeveloped Countries

How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.

- Che Guevara

topic: Country, Sweat, Suffering, Underdeveloped Countries

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

- Saul Bellow

topic: Country, Writing, Hypocrite, Expressing Love, Underdeveloped Countries

Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to approach a decent and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all in between. By de-development we mean lower per-capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence.

- John Holdren

topic: Country, Mean, Order, Standards Of Living, Abolition

...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk.....You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the...proper standard...I would think that you would not sleep at night....I do not think this country will not stand for it.

- Gaylord Nelson

topic: Country, Sleep, Dark, Countries Of The World, Underdeveloped Countries

The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.

- Paul A. Baran

source: Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.194, NYU Press

topic: Country, Lying, Impact, Preventing, Underdeveloped Countries

This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful...agreement would have very negative effects upon the technology of nations throughout the world, especially those that are currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to the over 4 billion people in technologically underdeveloped countries.

- Frederick Seitz

topic: Country, Opportunity, Technology, Hydrocarbons, Underdeveloped Countries

Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the people as a whole and based on the principle that man is the most precious of all possessions, will allow us to go forward more quickly and more harmoniously, and thus make impossible that caricature of society where all economic and political power is held in the hands of a few who regard the nation as a whole with scorn and contempt.

- Frantz Fanon

topic: Country, Men, Hands, Cartels, Underdeveloped Countries

A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries - it means keeping poor people poor. Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty.

- Philip Agee

topic: Country, Mean, People, Exporting, Continuation

We think that Hillary [Clinton] will be a symbol and a reality for the women of the world, and it's very important because so many - so many underdeveloped countries, not the least of which is Afghanistan, the women of the world need help, and she understands those issues and is a lightning rod for them.

- Eleanor Smeal

source: Source: www.blogher.com

topic: Country, Reality, Thinking, Underdeveloped Countries

Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Country, Thinking, Doe, Underdeveloped Countries

The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

topic: Country, People, Firsts, Cultural Relativism, Underdeveloped Countries

What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.

- Francis Fukuyama

source: Francis Fukuyama (2006). “End of History and the Last Man”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

topic: Country, Block, Europe, Latecomers, Underdeveloped Countries

In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.

- George Mikes

topic: Country, Australia, Needs, Snobbery, Underdeveloped Countries