Underdeveloped Country Quotes

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“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 —

“If we look for love in others without finding it in ourselves, we are like an underdeveloped country at the mercy of industrialised countries. Some may rescue us, providing the resources we lack and creating a tie of dependence, while others may teach us to produce what we need so that in a distant future we may become self-sufficient. Others may refuse to offer support, hating and even fighting us, hence urgently forcing us to find our own resources within. Perhaps one day someone will become aware that we are part of the same planet, and that all resources, including love, belongs to all.”

— Franco Santoro

“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

“I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.”

— Thomas R. Insel

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

— Jonathan Raban

“You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finally weed out all the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.”

— Jen Lancaster

“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

“Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ... turn Vietnam into a developed country in the coming decades.”

— Tran ?uc Luong

“The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“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

“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