Social Development Quotes

• All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

  Friedrich Engels

  Struggle, Class, Development

  "The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document".

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• Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, Queens, Fall

  "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

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• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Technology, Important, Tools

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• Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

  Robert Zoellick

  Cake, Growth, Climate

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• Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Reality, Men, Social

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• We are one human race, and there must be understanding among all men. For those who look at the problems of today, my big hope is that they understand. That they understand that the population is quite big enough, that they must be informed that they must have economic development, that they must have social development, and must be integrated into all parts of the world.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Men, Race

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• Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized man.

  King Hussein I

  Block, War, Gun

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• The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Important, Development, Detachment

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• When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.

  Fred Polak

  Culture, Development, Evolution

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• China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Rights, Challenges

  Press Conference with President Obama and President Hu of the People's Republic of China, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 19, 2011.

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• Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. No nation or business sector can ignore the ethical implications present in all economic and social development. With increasing clarity scientific research demonstrates that the impact of human actions in any one place or region can have worldwide effects.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Impact, Environmental, Attention

  Pope Benedict XVI's Letter to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople on the Occasion of the Seventh Symposium of the Religion, Science and the Environment Movement, w2.vatican.va. September 1, 2007.

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• Music has to be recognized as an…agent of social development in the highest sense, because it transmits the highest values - solidarity, harmony, mutual compassion. And it has the ability to unite an entire community and to express sublime feelings.

  Jose Antonio Abreu

  Compassion, Community, Feelings

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• We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face in this area, namely, reducing the gap between high-income earners and people, citizens of our country, who are still living on very modest means indeed. But we cannot, of course, adopt the solution used 80 years ago and simply confiscate the riches of some to redistribute among others. We will use completely different means to resolve this problem, namely, we will ensure good economic growth.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Mean, Years

  Transcript of Press Conference with the Russian and Foreign Media, en.kremlin.ru. February 01, 2007.

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• As you know Cuba has progressed a lot regarding all the indicators of social development and those rates can be compared favorably with the first world in several aspects. We think that without the heavy burden of the blockade that we can move forward a lot more in building prosperous and sustainable socialism to which we aspire.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Moving, Thinking, Development

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• Intellectual capital is the main determining factor and the base for economic and social development to any country.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Country, Intellectual, Development

  "Meeting the Challenges of Electronic Business" in Muscat, Oman, October 09, 2000.

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• There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection... The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.

  Jean Monnet

  Country, Strong, Europe

  Speech to the French National Liberation Committee, August 5, 1943.

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• When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Country, Art

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• No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

  Winston Churchill

  Muslim Faith, Islam, Stronger

  "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

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• The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?

  E. O. Wilson

  Parent, Robots, Doe

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• Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Winning

  "On Contradiction" by Mao Zedong, 1937.

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• The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

  Carroll Quigley

  Religious, Political, Intellectual

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term--the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Expression, Development, Synthesis

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.130, AK Press

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• China attaches great importance to the utilization of renewable resources, making it one of the important moves to promote economic and social development

  Hu Jintao

  Moving, Important, Development

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• I know rappers who are grandparents and we still haven't conquered politics, social development, philanthropy and these are areas, as we become our parents and grandparents, that we need to hold the torch of what makes the world run and what makes communities better.

  Rhymefest

  Running, Rapper, Grandparent

  Source: chicagoist.com

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