Human Development Quotes

• All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Opportunity

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• 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

  Education, Teaching, Democracies Have

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Jun 03, 2016

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• The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole.

  Kofi Annan

  Rights, Society, Development

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Dec 10, 2016

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

  Amartya Sen

  Growth, Development, Investment

  "Amartya Sen: India's dirty fighter". Interview With Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2013.

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• 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

  Development, Outcomes, Farmers

  "How Do Schools Suffocate Creativity?". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. June 17, 2012.

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

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Creativity, Innovation

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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  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

  Children, Greatness, Organization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Children, Expression, Play

  Friedrich Fröbel (1912). “Froebel's Chief Writings on Education”

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• We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.

  Stephen Covey

  Perspective, Perception, World

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.25, Mango Media Inc.

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• 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

  Progress, Development, Able

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Opposites, Development, World

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• Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

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• 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.

  Abdul Kalam

  Development, Unrest, Half

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

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Health, Issues, Environmental

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

  Jared Diamond

  Years, Different, Development

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

  Harry Belafonte

  Art, Creativity, Society

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• 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

  Work, Men, Use

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.921, e-artnow

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• 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

  Blessing, Appreciate, Tragedy

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• Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a childs soul.”• “Play is the highest level of child development . . . It gives . . . joy, freedom, contentment, inner and outer rest, peace with the world . . . The plays of childhood are the germinal leaves of all later life.”• “Children are like tiny flowers; they are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Beautiful, Children, Flower

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• Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Educational, Australia

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Done, Development

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• If you look at the lives of artists, sitting in nature, painting, having the freedom. I think it's over. I think we're living in such a difficult moment of human development. Artists have more responsibility than ever before.

  Marina Abramovic

  Responsibility, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• 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

  Leadership, Wisdom, Past

  "Hillary Clinton preaches 'social gospel' not politics in latest speech". Hillary Clinton's address to a group of over 7,000 women about spiritual and social issues at United Methodist Women's Assembly in Kentucky, www.theglobaldispatch.com. April 28, 2014.

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• The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend on human beings... If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted among the greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the religion of love is only the weak reflection of the will of its exalted founder; its significance, however, lies in the direction which it attempted to give to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Powerful, Lying

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Volume I, Chapter 8 - The Beginning of My Political Activities, 1925.

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