Development Quote by Claude McKay

Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

— Walter Savage Landor

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

— Anonymous

There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

— Angus Deaton

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

— Henry Bolingbroke

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

— Anonymous

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is…

— Nicholas Negroponte

“The division of the world into the so-called developed and developing nations implies that the “developed” world has already achieved the achievable, and that…

— Peter Thiel

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

— Mahatma Gandhi

The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do,…

— Pete Wilson

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

“At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones.”

— George Soros