Quotes About Resources

By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

I think that rational people in the world know that oil is a very important commodity for the rest of the world.

The raw materials that Australia has in abundance will always be critical to world growth.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.

We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.

In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.

COVID-19 has had far reaching impacts on our state, including higher education.

If you say to teachers, how can we, with the resources we've got here, develop a policy on reading books, then within minutes, people have ideas, make plans, invent activities.

When you speak about Real Madrid, you talk about a lot of money - almost infinite funds - something very unique in the world.

Real power is having the ability and the resources to tell an amazing story or to say 'yes' to a filmmaker and change not only the filmmaker's life but the world.

I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive; gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs.

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.

After I graduated, I didn't have the resources to go to the studio, which is why I then went to social media.

What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're using up our capital, so we're dipping into our capital. We're using up what should be our children's and grandchildren's legacy.

Among the most important lessons to be taken from the history of oil is not taking essentials for granted. Conserve oil, but also conserve water. If our Hummers are a red flag in oil, maybe our Jacuzzis are the same for water.

Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.

My parents didn't have much money growing up, but they always had a budget for books.

As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy.

We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.