Able Quote by Alexander Herzen

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped,…

— E. F. Schumacher

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life,…

— Amartya Sen

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

— Charles Kettering

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

— Robert Owen

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

— Fred Rogers

Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The…

— Rajiv Gandhi

The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive…

— Will Durant

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

It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.

— Dominic Holland

Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and…

— Ross Garnaut

We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt…

— Jean Gebser

Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and…

— Abraham Maslow