Quotes About Resources

Mere parsimony is not economy…. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world's resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature.

Money attracts because it gives us the means to command the labor and service and finally the lives of others--human or otherwise.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone -- and to no one.

We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

There is no lack of water here, unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

Young man, Destiny is less inexorable than it appears. The resources of the great Ruler of the Universe are not so scanty and so stern as to deny to men the divine privilege of Free Will; all of us can carve out our own way, and God can make our very contradictions harmonize with His solemn ends.

Destiny is less inexorable than it appears. The resources of the great Ruler of the Universe are not so scanty and so stern as to deny to men the divine privilege of Free Will; all of us can carve out our own way, and God can make our very contradictions harmonise with His solemn ends.

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.

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A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick.

El estancamiento y la falta de perspectivas del arte moderno corresponden al estancamiento y a la falta de perspectivas de la sociedad de la mercancía que ha agotado todos sus recursos.

You are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody!

The universe is full of fuel.

Well, Fredde has all the best there at that school, all the

Jean Jacques Rousseau, in a green-spined hardcover that's right over there, one shelf away, JC179.R, said: You are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody!

He needed many new ships, but had neither money nor time to build them.

even without access to Caesar's estate, Octavian had large sums of money at his disposal.

That's how it is with the modern police these days. They've made so many cutbacks, there's no-one left to do the job.

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

If I buy a car, I use the car, you don't, and the market for cars works pretty well. But there are many other sorts of goods, often very important goods, which are not provided well through the market. Often, these go under the heading of public goods.

Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.

A second parent in the home provides back-up support in discipline when the other is at the breaking point, and a doubling of the emotional, intellectual, and moral resources that a child can draw on.