Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them. . . This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.
I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.
In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.
I always put these pert jackanapeses out of countenance by looking extremely grave when they expect that I should laugh at their pleasantries; and by saying Well, and so?--as if they had not done, and that the sting were still to come. This disconcerts them, as they have no resources in themselves, and have but one set of jokes to live upon.
The most valuable and least replacable resource is time.
President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.
The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.
The most scarce resource we have these days is the idea.
"Ocean" is more about. . . powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say in what happens, we have no money or resources, we sometimes have no idea what's going on.
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.
Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.
When women participate in politics, it ripples out to the entire society. . . Women are the world's most underused resource.
It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.
If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.
The wasting of finite resources is everyones business