Quotes About Resources

These are people that don't want to protect the American people... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.

We have plenty of money to do everything we want to do, if we do it smart.

Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.

Waste today, want tomorrow.

We all only have a certain amount of money and that means yes, we have to make choices and sometimes those choices mean we don't get what we want.

All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

It's time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?

The Iraq War is largely about oil.