Top 1200 Human Development Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development.

The development of the Internet has posed new challenges to national sovereignty, security and development interests.

Greatest risk is not development of new product, but development of customers and markets

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.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts based on poverty, discrimination and exclusion (social, economic and political) that continue to plague humanity and destroy decades of development efforts. The vicious circle of human rights violations that lead to conflicts-which in turn lead to more violations-must be broken. I believe we can break it only by ensuring respect for all human rights.

What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste.

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves

The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception. A human being is there. I separate the topic of abortion from any specifically religious notions. It is a scientific problem. Not to allow the further development of a being which already has all the genetic code of a human being is not ethical. The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill someone who cannot defend himself.

Our mission is skill development. There can be no development with a satiated system.

Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology and theory of pedagogy are essential in girls' education.

You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

Skill development, speed and scale are the 3 important aspects that are relevant to the present-day growth and development module.

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.

Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle it rejects all absolute schemes and concepts. It does not believe in any absolute truth, or in definite final goals for human development, but in an unlimited perfectibility of social arrangements and human conditions which are always straining after higher forms of expression, and to which for this reason one can assign no definite terminus nor set any fixed goal.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining

Physical exercise is indispensable to the development of body, and quite as certainly is spiritual activity requisite to the healthful and normal development of the soul.

People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was told, "This is development." And I said, "That is not development, definitely not sustainable development, definitely not responsible development. People need fresh air. They can do without buildings. They can do without concrete. But they cannot do without fresh air.

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.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction ... One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.

Development of Kendrapada is now my responsibility. I will personally monitor development of the district.

The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development, and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness. What else can I say? Thanks for giving me the privilege of reading this.

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.

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.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

My development parameter is very simple. It is about how the poorest of the poor can benefit from development.

We've supported the development of Cuba's private sector. This is a human rights issue - people should have the right to live with dignity and to control their livelihoods.

There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths-globalizers of economic growth and those hell-bent on this 'big is better' idea-on the one hand, and on the other hand those who are dedicated to spiritual renewal, more small-scale development, more human scale, more sustainability, more crafts and arts. Where human beings are not just sold to companies and money and those kinds of things. Where human beings have a sacred path.

Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger and hatred is likely to be destructive. It will only be beneficial if we seek the welfare of all beings. Human beings are the only species with the potential to destroy the world. Because of the risks of unrestrained desire and greed we need to cultivate contentment and simplicity.

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.

Horses are such a powerful part of human development and have been since the early ages. We humans owe them so much.

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

Development and prosperity of the world cannot happen without the simultaneous development of India and China.

Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.

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.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

Frequent elections not only entail more burden on human resources, imposition of model code also impedes the development process.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

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.

Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,.

The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.