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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities. -- Paul Wellstone
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. -- Edward Thorndike
One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. -- Douglas B. Reeves
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity. -- Lion Feuchtwanger
I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction -- Benazir Bhutto
Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness. -- Robert Genn
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. -- H. A. L. Fisher
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. -- Benito Mussolini
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. -- Christian Lous Lange
It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law. -- Judith Butler
I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the development of human potential, he cannot enter into intimate contact with his humanity. -- Erich Fromm
International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible. -- Samora Machel
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality -- John Searle
Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a visual record of the person who created it - his skill as a designer, his philosophy as an artist, his feeling for... the details of each letter and the resulting impressions of an alphabet or a text line. -- Will Burtin
Health is the core of human development. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development. -- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation. -- Victor Ponta
Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. -- Dave Barry
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. -- Mikhail Bakunin
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
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. -- Aldo Leopold
I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development. -- Jim Yong Kim
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being. -- Ashley Montagu
I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money. -- Vicente Fox
The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
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
I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights. -- Ban Ki-moon
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge. -- Lev Vygotsky
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
Health is the core of human development -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings. -- Niklaus Wirth
Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible. -- Theo van Boven
Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource. -- Dan Shechtman
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical -- Amartya Sen
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development. -- Paul Hawken
America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. -- Vladimir Putin
the key to human development is building on who you already are -- Tom Rath
The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable. -- Robert H. Goddard
Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development -- William Arthur Ward
All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. -- Marco Rubio
The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. -- Stephen Hawking
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature. -- Karl Kraus
Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East. -- Dalia Mogahed
The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent. -- Mahnaz Afkhami
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur. -- Maria Montessori
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself. -- Sigmund Freud
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development. -- Harry Belafonte
The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. -- Albert Einstein
Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years? -- Jared Diamond
... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love. -- Ashley Montagu
The stages of human development are to strive for:(1) Besitz [Possession](2) Wissen [Knowledge](3) KÃ¶nnen [Ability](4) Sein [Being -- Erwin Schrodinger
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. -- Claude McKay
Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character. -- L. P. Jacks
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol. -- George Carlin
Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development. -- Michael Fox
Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously. -- Kailash Satyarthi
The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human -- Sathya Sai Baba
I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida. -- George W. Bush
What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste. -- Jaggi Vasudev
...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings. -- Arno Gruen
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human. -- Kelly McGonigal
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development. -- Oscar Wilde
The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty. -- Sigmund Freud
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. -- Carl Jung
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. -- Thomas de Quincey
The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment. -- Dannel Malloy
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new. -- Charles Kettering
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. -- John Astin
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing, -- Alison Gopnik
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing. -- Alison Gopnik
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. -- Aldo Leopold
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution. -- African Spir
China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here. -- Ai Weiwei
It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species. -- Maria Montessori
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice. -- Kim Dae-jung
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
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
... the aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity... -- Manfred Max Neef
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
What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community -- Arthur Dobrin
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
The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels. -- Mary Robinson
What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work. -- Mo Ibrahim
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
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
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
We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights. -- Kofi Annan
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
For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development. -- Michael Taylor
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. -- Erich Fromm
if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history. -- David Gelernter
As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development. -- Toshihiko Fukui
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
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
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
In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue. -- Erich Fromm
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. -- Christiana Figueres
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded. -- Wole Soyinka
To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights. -- Clare Short
An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can be continued into the indefinite future. -- Robert Gilman
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series. -- Nadia Boulanger
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
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
Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems. -- Jim Yong Kim
Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities. -- Hans Jonas

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