When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction. . . One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.
I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.
That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.
We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor communities; we also know that they have a large constituency including women and youth; they have outreach and networks and they are credible to their people. If we want to achieve the Millennium Development Foals by scaling up the responses of all the communities, do we ignore this large investment in people? Or do we engage in dialogue and in action?
Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.
So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.
To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
'Studying the Way' is just a figure of speech, a method of arousing people's interest in the early stages of their development. In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. Study leads to the retention of concepts, and so the Way is entirely misunderstood
One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.
Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.
The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development