Quotes About Human Development

#1. The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them to exercise their rights and make choices in their lives is crucial. It is at the heart of human development!

Babatunde Osotimehin

#2. Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical

Amartya Sen

#3. Technologies as users interacting with other technologies as prompters, through other in-between technologies: this is another way of describing hyperhistory as the stage of human development

Luciano Floridi

#4. In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#5. 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 and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

Alfred Kazin

#6. Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

Dalia Mogahed

#7. Such people are not known for their sense of humour and lightness of touch; they rarely break a smile. To them, change is always suspect and usually damnable, and they hardly ever contribute to human development.

Paul Kriwaczek

#8. In Mencken's view, "religion belongs to a very early stage of human development, and ... its rapid decay in the world since the Reformation is evidence of genuine progress" ("The Ascent of Man").

H.L. Mencken

#9. When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.

Ai Weiwei

#10. Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#11. 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 security.

Anna Quindlen

#12. I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.

George W. Bush

#13. 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

#14. 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 and a mother and willed by God. At stake is the total rejection of God's law engraved in our hearts.

Pope Francis

#15. Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

Ban Ki-moon

#16. The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#17. In determination of prevention,
as a form of aid to human development,
I will attempt to comprehend meaning."

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Nikolay Boychev

#18. Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

Kailash Satyarthi

#19. 21st century is the century of knowledge and the world has always looked at India whenever knowledge finds prominence. Emergence of knowledge society is no more a slogan but has become a reality. Knowledge will be the fountainhead of all the activities that happen in human development.

Narendra Modi

#20. Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. Most scientists would make a similar statement about evolution.

Kenneth R. Miller

#21. Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

L. P. Jacks

#22. You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#23. Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid ... Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.

Yuri Gagarin

#24. Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.

Hillary Clinton

#26. The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of locality directly or indirectly and help in enhancing human development index in the state.

Pallam Raju

#27. The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#28. Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

Koichiro Matsuura

#29. Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Kofi Annan

#30. 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

#31. Why do anything if the apex of human development is Fran Drescher?

Noah Cicero

#32. Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

Paul Hawken

#33. You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.

Carlos Slim

#34. 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 aim of human development.

Jan Tschichold

#35. All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

Charles Kettering

#36. Inglis is full of metaphors about hands because they've been so important to our human development. It'll come in handy, we say. This child's a handful, and This is getting out of hand, or You're in good hands.

Sheila Finch

#37. Is the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity.

John Stuart Mill

#38. To understand the seriousness of abortion, one must know the physiology of human development. Ignorance of these facts is in part why mothers are willing to have an abortion and the general public allows abortions on demand.

John S. Feinberg

#39. When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.

Emma Goldman

#40. Health is the core of human development.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#41. We must realize that when basic needs have been met, human development is primarily about being more, not having more ... .

Dalai Lama XIV

#42. You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

Ken Robinson

#43. 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 than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

Amartya Sen

#44. Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

Bill Gates

#45. To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development - the full use of one's best faculties - this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#46. the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development

Albert Einstein

#47. Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that , maybe we wouldn't have so many wars.

Harvey Pekar

#48. The Jewish and particularly the Christian traditions have stressed the element of sin but have ignored the fact that it is the emancipation from the security of Paradise which is the basis for man's truly human development.

Erich Fromm

#49. Think there is less cynicism about human rights than there was. The work we are doing is part of the overall pattern of human development, whatever the political system, whatever the country, whatever the cultural background, whatever the religion.

Martin Ennals

#50. The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications.

Robin Marantz Henig

#51. The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#52. Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

Jared Diamond

#53. While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

Erich Fromm

#54. The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Robert H. Goddard

#55. We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You're sanctioning medicine for the people.

Hassan Rouhani

#56. The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. What is happening to the rain forests of Madagascar and Brazil will affect us all.

E. O. Wilson

#57. Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

Harry Belafonte

#58. 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 been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#59. 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

#60. The key to human development is building on who you already are

Tom Rath

#61. You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.

Coretta Scott King

#62. 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 blessing until it is lost.

Shmuley Boteach

#63. Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

Maria Montessori

#64. Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

Joe Haldeman

#65. Every day is a training day and every event is a training event.

James Pritchert

#66. Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Claude McKay

#67. PS ... ... confused from where you should start planning ... ... . !! Well, start from who you are, where you are and how you are.

Sameh Elsayed

#68. The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Eliza Farnham

#69. The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

Dannel Malloy

#70. ERIK ERIKSON, ONE OF the most innovative psychoanalysts of the twentieth century, wrote about these moments of existential review in his work on the human life cycle. He famously argued that all of us go through eight stages of development, each marked by a specific conflict.

Jennifer Senior

#71. When you find yourself thinking far from others ... .. When you are faced with the differences between you and the rest ... .. Know you found your uniqueness.

Sameh Elsayed

#72. My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

Hans Rosling

#73. Complaining from lack of food doesn't always affect my emotions. complaining from lack of knowledge, passion, creative ideas and happiness always does.

Sameh Elsayed

#74. I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.

David Christian

#75. The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#76. Do not let go of your right to make your own decisions, because by doing so you are letting go of who you really are.

Sameh Elsayed

#77. The development of a kind heart, or feeling of closeness for all human beings, does not involve any of the kind of religiosity we normally associate with it ... It is for everyone, irrespective of race, religion or any political affiliation.

Dalai Lama

#78. The construction of the nuclear doomsday machine - and its continued maintenance and development since the mid-twentieth century - is surely one of the most astounding acts of collective insanity in the history of the human species.

Richard L. Currier

#79. The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

Frances Harper

#80. People get smarter. The human brain has a potential for development. Some day it will grow big enough so that everybody will see and understand the truth, and then we won't act like a bunch of sheep, and then that wall separates the two sides of us will crumble, just like the wall of Jericho.

Harry Bernstein

#81. The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#82. We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.

Ludwig Von Mises

#83. We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

Zygmunt Bauman

#84. Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Thomas Carlyle

#85. China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights.

Hu Jintao

#86. Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#87. For those who were born lovers, falling in love is not neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence.

Sameh Elsayed

#88. At its best, leadership development is not an "event." It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#89. When a worrier acts bravery and face death in a battle, rest assured that he/she is knows that the case fought for has its values.

Sameh Elsayed

#90. There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.

Alfred Russel Wallace

#91. The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Quentin Crisp

#92. The artist speaks with inspiring tools of creativity. Thinkers challenge with the weapons of choice. These two forces are necessary to move souls beyond limitation.

T.F. Hodge

#93. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

Idries Shah

#94. One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

Douglas B. Reeves

#95. The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

Mahnaz Afkhami

#96. A wise human life contains several journeys among several experiences, each of them takes him/her to a new level of wisdom in which makes him/her refuses to return to how he/she was before that experience.

Sameh Elsayed

#97. If you are weak ... . It is ok. Because you can get variety of opportunities to strengthen yourself ... ... you can have several chances to become a stronger individual. But if you are a hater you only have one opportunity to keep being weaker day after day.

Sameh Elsayed

#98. Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Bruce Lee

#99. The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.

Kelly McGonigal

#100. Make her smile, make her laugh and make her happy; because this is the only Truth, Meaning & Beauty act any human can ever achieve.

Sameh Elsayed