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Quotes About Development

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
~ Queen Rania of Jordan
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
~ Jean Chretien
I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.
~ Indira Gandhi
There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
~ Wei Jingsheng
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
~ Kofi Annan
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
From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.
~ Nelson Mandela
We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."
~ Price Pritchett
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
~ Willard Gaylin
Fusion will be ready when society needs it.
~ Lev Artsimovich
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.
~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
~ Madame de Stael
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
~ Friedrich Schiller
The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.
~ Allen Newell
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
~ James Henry Breasted
That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.
~ Marva Collins
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
~ Nelson Mandela