Human Development quotes:

Send

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years? -- Jared Diamond
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better. -- Brian Eno
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. -- Kofi Annan
Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs. -- Bill Gates
Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights. -- Larry Elder
Health is the core of human development. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida. -- George W. Bush
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development. -- Paul Hawken
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical -- Amartya Sen
The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable. -- Robert H. Goddard
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur. -- Maria Montessori
The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously. -- Kailash Satyarthi
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. -- Friedrich Frobel
You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish. -- Ken Robinson
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security. -- Anna Quindlen
The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications. -- Robin Marantz Henig
The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions. -- Emma Goldman
The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of locality directly or indirectly and help in enhancing human development index in the state. -- Pallam Raju
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. -- Stephen Covey
Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. Most scientists would make a similar statement about evolution. -- Kenneth R. Miller
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America. -- Coretta Scott King
Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it. -- Amartya Sen
You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops. -- Carlos Slim
Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration. -- Ban Ki-moon
We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You're sanctioning medicine for the people. -- Hassan Rouhani
The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security. -- Pranab Mukherjee
May the deepest spiritual values of the Filipino people continue to find expression in your efforts to provide your fellow citizens with an integral human development. In this way, each person will be able to fulfill his or her potential, and thus contribute wisely and well to the future of this country. -- Pope Francis
It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct. -- Herbert Spencer
I have always been fascinated by structure and by exploring its possibilities. Throughout my life as a designer and maker, my structures have progressively become lighter and lighter, to the point now where I wonder how I can just sell the idea without any physical form. This seems to parallel human development where, as our bodies age, physicality is replaced by conceptualising and spirituality. -- David Trubridge
All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. -- Marco Rubio
Health is the core of human development -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings. -- Niklaus Wirth
Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource. -- Dan Shechtman
Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible. -- Theo van Boven
America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. -- Vladimir Putin
the key to human development is building on who you already are -- Tom Rath
Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development -- William Arthur Ward
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature. -- Karl Kraus
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development. -- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities. -- Paul Wellstone
The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. -- Stephen Hawking
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself. -- Sigmund Freud
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development. -- Harry Belafonte
The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent. -- Mahnaz Afkhami
Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East. -- Dalia Mogahed
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. -- Albert Einstein
... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love. -- Ashley Montagu
One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. -- Douglas B. Reeves
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development. -- Michael Fox
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. -- Claude McKay
The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol. -- George Carlin
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. -- Edward Thorndike
Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character. -- L. P. Jacks
The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human -- Sathya Sai Baba
The stages of human development are to strive for:(1) Besitz [Possession](2) Wissen [Knowledge](3) KÃ¶nnen [Ability](4) Sein [Being -- Erwin Schrodinger
Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation. -- Victor Ponta
...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings. -- Arno Gruen
What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste. -- Jaggi Vasudev
The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human. -- Kelly McGonigal
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty. -- Sigmund Freud
Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. -- Dave Barry
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development. -- Oscar Wilde
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. -- Carl Jung
The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment. -- Dannel Malloy
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. -- John Astin
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. -- Thomas de Quincey
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new. -- Charles Kettering
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution. -- African Spir
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. -- Aldo Leopold
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing. -- Alison Gopnik
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing, -- Alison Gopnik
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. -- Aldo Leopold
China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here. -- Ai Weiwei
I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction -- Benazir Bhutto
It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species. -- Maria Montessori
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice. -- Kim Dae-jung
Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society. -- Koichiro Matsuura
The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels. -- Mary Robinson
... the aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity... -- Manfred Max Neef
What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work. -- Mo Ibrahim
Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. -- Pope Benedict XVI
What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community -- Arthur Dobrin
I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development. -- Jim Yong Kim
Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests. -- Liya Kebede
When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development. -- Ai Weiwei
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price. -- Alexander Herzen
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development. -- Anna Lindh
We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights. -- Kofi Annan
Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness. -- Robert Genn
For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development. -- Michael Taylor
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. -- Erich Fromm
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being. -- Ashley Montagu
if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history. -- David Gelernter
As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development. -- Toshihiko Fukui
To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts. -- Wu Bangguo
I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money. -- Vicente Fox
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. -- H. A. L. Fisher
An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can be continued into the indefinite future. -- Robert Gilman
To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights. -- Clare Short
This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history. -- Christiana Figueres
The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue. -- Erich Fromm
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded. -- Wole Soyinka
The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights. -- Ban Ki-moon
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series. -- Nadia Boulanger
Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development. -- Jan Tschichold
Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems. -- Jim Yong Kim
Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities. -- Hans Jonas
In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost. -- Shmuley Boteach
Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that , maybe we wouldn't have so many wars. -- Harvey Pekar

Send