Quotes about Development
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
— George Eliot
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
— George Eliot
The capital city had grown in alarming fashion: cardboard walls, tin roofs, people in rags clearly visible along the road from the airport. Since this made a very bad impression on visitors, for a long time the solution was to put up walls to hide them. As one politician said, 'Where there is poverty, hide it.
— Isabel Allende
Because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress
— Isabel Allende
The General was right. No one dies of hunger here - you reach out your hand and pluck a mango. That's why there is no progress. Cold countries have more advanced civilizations because the climate forces people to work.
— Isabel Allende
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
— Anonymous
The old order changeth, yielding place to new.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
— George Eliot
To lose Is to learn.
— Anonymous