Resource Misuse Quotes

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

At no time I have used the resources of my office to facilitate a relationship of any type.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

I suspect that a huge amount of the anxiety and suffering that we see around can be closely traced to our wanton misuse of our resources. Just look at any garbage dump and see what is wasted. In a sense, we've wasted our souls.

If we provide 400 new beds, we get 400 new tramps.

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.

Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.

I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.

Malthusian famine scenarios have systematically distracted attention from the fact that it is not people’s reproductive habits that are the principal source of most of the misuse or waste of the world’s resources, but the contradictions and motives of capitalist development.

In New York, lights are on the whole night; there are offices where not a single person is working, but all lights are on. The street lights at the White House are lit all the day. Why? And we are being told not to use coal.

Despite the intended purpose of 911 fees, some states have diverted these resources to nonrelated or, worse yet, nonpublic safety purposes.

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.