Development Quote by Paul Farmer Download Open image “Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.” — Paul Farmer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Development Graveyard Haiti People People Talk Projects
I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
“In spite of its poverty, its political upheavals, its lack of resources, Haiti is not a peripheral place. Its history has made it a… — Yanick Lahens Copy Share Image
Haiti is not a world aside, a world apart. Culture and imaginations have always been part of our rebirth. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
And in rural communities we've worked alongside, Haitians are doing far more than merely recovering from the earthquake. Many are creating long-term sustainable change. — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't… — Eddie Bravo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
