Nicolae Ceausescu Quotes

Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work.

The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow.

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

The major challenge facing us is to elevate our national life to the highest level of civilization and prosperity.

To build socialism means not only building gigantic factories and flour mills. This is essential but not enough for building socialism. People must grow in mind and heart.

At the basis of all prosperity, for that as well as for every other part of the country, lies the improvement of the intellectual and moral condition of the people.

Growth and prosperity. These are the blocks with which we must build our welfare society.

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living.

In Odisha, we have concentrated on people and their development. We hope to take Odisha to new heights.

I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about.

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people.

Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization.

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

Build a global economy that will lift up—and not drag down—our people and all the people of the world.

How do we build an intelligent plan for growth over decades while responding to citizen’s immediate demands for less inequality and more opportunity. We must do both.

What we can do in Singapore may not be doable elsewhere. Some things you know you need: you want efficient government, you want clean government, you want to do away with corruption, you must educate your people. You want to get housing and so on. All these are not such secrets, not so special to Singapore.

Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.