Sustainable Human Development Quotes

#1. 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

#2. intentional: if you meddle in our affairs, we'll

Douglas Preston

#3. Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

Liya Kebede

#4. No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

A.A. Milne

#5. The fewer plants and animals we are able to recognize as individuals - recognize well enough to name - the more alienated we have come to feel from ourselves, the Earth and God, the Source.

Linda Bender

#6. I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.

Pearl Cleage

#7. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

Robert M. Pirsig

#8. What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

Ed Crane

#9. May you get all your wishes but one, So you always have something to strive for. Irish blessing

Janice Thompson

#10. There is only one race ... and it is human!

William P. Young

#11. The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

Harry Stack Sullivan

#12. My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.

James Langevin

#13. In the long term, it will be the human race that must take responsibility for the development of sustainable life-styles and economies that are not insistent on continuing growth and a throw away society.

David De Kretser

#14. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Albert A. Bartlett

#15. You know what the bounty is on bin Laden? $25 million. It sounds like a lot until you realize the Texas Rangers paid $250 million to get Alex Rodriguez.

Jay Leno

#16. Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

Pope Benedict XVI

#17. Not all series books are sagas. Some are shaped more like beads on a string, separate episodes held together by a set of characters, who may or may not grow and change as the series continues.

Katharine Kerr

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

Paul Hawken

#19. There is great pain in all love, but we don't care, it's worth it.

Lewis Nordan

#20. Respect for human rights requires transparent and accountable institutions and governance as well as the effective participation of all individuals and civil society, who are an essential part of realizing social and people-centred sustainable development.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#21. To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts.

Wu Bangguo

#22. ...it would be a lie to describe the experience as anything less than exhilarating, the repulsive going hand in hand with the wondrous.

Caitlin Doughty

#23. Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable.

John Loengard

#24. Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

Anna Lindh

#25. Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

Dan Shechtman