Community Quote by Paul Collier

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

— Noam Chomsky

“To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of…

— Assassin's Creed Maxim

“Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.”

— robert m drake

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars…

— Muhammad Yunus

They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the…

— Marsden Hartley

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty…

— Anna Lindh

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it…

— Arnold Bennett

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us…

— Trofim Lysenko

When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,…

— Maile Meloy

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning…

— Paul Kurtz

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan

Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but…

— Bernard Lonergan