Development Quotes

The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.

What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone

Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave.

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

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

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.

Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about that child

The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

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

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?

We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans.

The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.

The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can prove any theorem using nothing but a few mechanical rules... One might therefore conjecture that these axioms and rules of inference are sufficient to decide any mathematical question that can at all be formally expressed in these systems. It will be shown below that this is not the case, that on the contrary there are in the two systems mentioned relatively simple problems in the theory of integers that cannot be decided on the basis of the axioms.

Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.

Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.

Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena.

The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.

Infancy is a vulnerable stage of development, therefore, it's not enough that babies receive good care, the care must be excellent.

The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.

To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.

We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.

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

It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.

True development must be in harmony with the needs of people and the rhythms of the natural world.