A Quote by Paul Collier

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

Paul Collier

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Paul Collier
British - Professor
Born: April 25, 1953

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George W. Bush

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

James Cash Penney

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John Sweeney

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Henry Newman

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Langston Hughes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Real contentment must come from within. You and I can not change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.

Warren W. Wiersbe

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

James Gibbons

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Margaret Mead

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

Emile Durkheim

My generation has not seen one single day of peace, and my dream is for my children and the children of all Colombians to have the change to see it. I hope the guerrilla understands that the time has come to leave this 50-year confrontation behind; that the time has come to change from bullets to votes, from weapons to argumentations; that the time has come for them to continue their struggle, but within democracy.

Juan Manuel Santos

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Emile Durkheim

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Herbert Hoover

Bearing in mind that "the market" is not an invention of capitalism but that it has existed for thousands of years in many different societies, social justice logically requires that the profits resulting from the operation of markets and infrastructures created by society be equitably shared within societies and in a larger context within the human family.