Human Development Quotes

54 quotes by 49 authors

Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price. — Alexander Herzen
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the… — Jan Tschichold
..I think there is less cynicism about human rights than there was. The work we are doing is part of the overall pattern of human… — Martin Ennals
The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical — Amartya Sen
Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather… — Amartya Sen
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a childs soul.â€â€¢ â€œPlay… — Friedrich Frobel
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.… — Jacob Bronowski
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. — Friedrich Frobel
May the deepest spiritual values of the Filipino people continue to find expression in your efforts to provide your fellow citizens with an integral human… — Pope Francis
At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given by a father… — Pope Francis
The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny… — Alfred Kazin
In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a… — Shmuley Boteach
Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of… — Larry Elder
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
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have… — Abdul Kalam
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and… — Anna Quindlen
Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by… — Isaac Asimov

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