Quotes About Resources

We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.

So, should we race to see how quickly we can consume the last tuna, swordfish, and grouper? Or race to see what can be done to protect what remains? For now, there is still a choice.

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

The American Dream was just then beginning to be defined by wealth at the expense of exploitable natural resources

Gandhi said that we have enough resources for the need of us all, but not for the greed of us all," he recited. "And this is Thomas Kocherry's quotation: 'The life of the planet, and the dependent health of humanity, cannot be sacrificed for the greed of a few.

Profits. Joe, if you want to use just one word"—and Mr. Healey wagged a huge finger at Joseph—"to describe wars and the making of wars, it's profits. Nothing else. Profits.

I don't delude myself with either self-pity or conceit: I can evaluate my own psychological state with the utmost objectivity and consistency. I know precisely which emotional resources I have and which I lack, and how much value I place on each. I have no regrets.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

The Columbia River Basin, which spans seven states in the Pacific Northwest, is one of the largest freshwater networks in North America. For centuries, the Basin has been a catalyst for economic development through the abundance of natural resources it provides.

My first objective is to invest, and if I have anything spare, then I spend.

I think race is very important. I think generally speaking, we've to face the general problem, which is that we are seeing more children coming out of families which simply don't give them adequate resources for their development.

When you need help, you have to look for it: at times, it's necessary. People are specialists; that's what they're there for. You have to use them.

I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.

If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.

For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling.

We now have poured in an enormous amount of resources into cancer. The National Cancer Institute Project, you know, runs about $5 billion a year. That's a large amount of money, but let's not be grandiose about the amount of money we're actually spending on a problem that is attacking us at the most fundamental level of the human species.

It can be a huge help to parents considering the adoption of an older child, when college is just a few years away, to know that there are post-adoption resources and specific financial assistance opportunities available to them.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.

It's always possible to spend more money.