Top 1200 Human Development Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation.

Far too many governments are cutting back on their investment in human development.

The Congress-led UPA government is not releasing development funds and criticizing my government for not taking adequate steps for development. This shows that Congress is only playing politics for electoral gains and is not serious about development of the state.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits.

The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a childs soul.”• “Play is the highest level of child development . . . It gives . . . joy, freedom, contentment, inner and outer rest, peace with the world . . . The plays of childhood are the germinal leaves of all later life.”• “Children are like tiny flowers; they are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science? When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to approach a decent and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all in between. By de-development we mean lower per-capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence.

The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol.

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

Mobile internet will be the single-most defining technology of this century for human development.

When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include the possibility of this development in our overall, social evolution we will witness the decline of our species

The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

For Modi, India offers a great opportunity for development with excellent natural and human resources.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized.

The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon.

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.

We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system that is completely unsustainable. I see solutions to climate change leading to a much larger philosophical shift in the way human society develops. We need a new matrix to define what human progress is.