The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is…

“The Revolution, after discovering that it had confused the knife with the assassin, turned sugar, which had been responsible for underdevelopment, into an instrument…

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“The general economic growth of the quarter of a century that followed World War II not surprisingly created many illusions. In the West, people…

— Samir Amin

Underdevelopment is a lack of maintenance.

— Lucero Isaac

“In a way, underdevelopment is a paradox. Many parts of the world that are naturally rich are actually poor and parts that are not…

— Walter Rodney

The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always and everywhere…

— Ivan Illich

When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which seeps through…

— Kode9

“The South African state created a dual economy, preventing 80 percent of the population from taking part in skilled occupations, commercial farming, and entrepreneurship.…

— Daron Acemoğlu

For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the…

— Elliott Abrams

Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is…

— Shelby Steele

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive…

— Pope John Paul II

“We do not have to look for diseases to explain why some people are not able to experience the full flowering of their potential.…

— Gabor Maté

At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that…

— Raila Odinga

It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and…

— Edward Steichen

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

— Arthur Conan Doyle