Human security recognizes the importance of individuals and that the key to ensuring growth in developing countries is to foster individual talent and abilities, build self-reliance, and put people in a position to make a broader contribution to society. Growth must be inclusive, and no one must be left behind.
Interpretation
Human security emphasizes the value of individual potential in fostering societal growth and inclusivity.
This quote by Shinzo Abe highlights the concept of human security, which prioritizes individual talent and self-reliance as critical components for development. By advocating for inclusive growth that ensures no one is left behind, it implies that the progress of society fundamentally relies on empowering individuals to contribute meaningfully.
In practice
This quote could be used during a speech at a development conference to emphasize the importance of empowering individuals.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.
The recovery of spiritual sight and the healing of physical blindness have much in common. Some of those whose bodily eyes were blind received their sight at once, like the man who heard and immediately saw and was healed. Others recovered their sight gradually as in the case of the man, who, before he was completely cured, said, “I see men as trees, walking”. It is the same with those whose spiritual eyes were healed.
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When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
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