UN General Assembly
1971

113. We sincerely hope that many other countries will follow suit and help us to become real "developing" countries not, as an eminent economist rightly but humorously remarked, "under-developing" countries. This cannot be achieved unless, in our so-called consumer society of intemperate selfishness, development is regarded as an instrument in the service of man and of all men. Man is ever at the center of the systems of philosophy prevailing in all parts of the world. It would be reassuring if, in their daily activities, in the day-to-day exercise of their heavy responsibilities, statesmen were to keep in mind what Albert Camus rightly and most aptly observed, namely that "unless men can refer to a common set of values, recognized by all anJ every one, then man will become incomprehensible to man". Let us meditate on that thought.