Development Quotes

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We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of the dividend of… — John Dramani Mahama
The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies, tax… — Eric Kierans
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer… — Jacques Ellul
The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply. — Ludwig von Mises
That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything. — Immanuel Wallerstein
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend… — Adolf Hitler
Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so… — Pope Paul VI
Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story. — Jean Houston
Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic transmissions - a chattering planet… — John Foley
Without God the economy is only economy, nature is nothing more than a deposit of material, the family only a contract, life nothing more than… — Giampaolo Crepaldi
Another name for peace is development. — Pope John Paul II
Nature is not a drag on growth. Its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development — Tony Juniper
There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only… — Swami Vivekananda
In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil. — Swami Vivekananda
Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend — Jim MacNeill
No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the biggest challenges facing… — Tommy Koh
The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that… — B R Ambedkar
In the long term, it will be the human race that must take responsibility for the development of sustainable life-styles and economies that are not… — David de Kretser
Globalisation can provide the route for the development of a sustainable and prosperous planetary society in the next generation, provided that globalisation itself becomes more… — Peter Ellyard

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