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Quotes About Development

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
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
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
~ Daniel Libeskind
Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.
~ Alice Bailey
When the State withers, humanity flowers.
~ Anthony Burgess
Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.
~ Jane Wagner
I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity.
~ George Carlin
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
I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.
~ Stefan Banach
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.
~ Heinrich Heine
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.
~ Diane Ackerman
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.
~ David Ehrenfeld
As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
~ Aberjhani
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
A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.
~ Johan Huizinga
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
~ Georg Buchner
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.
~ Hosea Ballou
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
~ Sigmund Freud