#third world

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#focus #focused #horribly #impossible #lot

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#bush #corporations #debt #destruction #george

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages. ↗

— David Korten

#even #experience #faster #housing #increased

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

— Terry Southern

#countries #dealt #exploiting #nations #out

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. ↗

— John McCarthy

#advance #blame #countries #course #failure

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

— Martin Sheen

#america #enough #given #i #information