#first world

Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea? ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#countries #fewer #first #first world #give

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. ↗

— James Buchan

#ago #answer #belated #britain #british

My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#after #always #around #before #born

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#championship #first #first world #great #home

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 vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#carnage #first #first world #first world war #forget

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#communism #first #first world #first world war #fruit

My father was in the First World War. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#first #first world #first world war #war #world

As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#deeply #enough #felt #first #first world

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#country #dissent #eliminate #entirely #ever