Quotes about Resources

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

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 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.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

Medical and scientific resources are directed toward more life and fitter life and remind us that the desire is for earthbound eternity, rather than eternal afterlife. The implication being that this is all there is.

Christian leaders have leveraged our men to build church buildings and run church programs, but we have failed to disciple them in what it means to be about the kingdom. Nothing is wrong with church buildings—as long as those within it aim to use the available resources strategically to advance God's kingdom.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

is it really true that we can't afford one attack helicopter's worth of seed corn to listen to the stars?

The most important step we can take toward Mars is to make significant progress on Earth. Even modest improvements in the social, economic, and political problems that our global civilization now faces could release enormous resources, both material and human, for other goals.

That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.