Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality.
Perhaps we are only forerunners. Twenty or even a hundred years may pass before the National Socialist idea is victorious; those who believe in the ideal today may die: but what is a man in the development of a people, of mankind.
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time. " They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.
State control is important for the people who have always been excluded from the claims of social and economic development.
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.
Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.
Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.
We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries (. . . ) The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems (. . . ) Socialism and market economy are not incompatible (. . . ) We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, but most of all, we must be concerned about left-wing deviations.
Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.
In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
I definitely want to focus on economic development, because that is what is needed in the community, as well as education.
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.
Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
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.
Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?