“Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.” PeopleWorldWayHumansLittlesDoneEarthEnergyBornRacePathClearResourcesGardenHopelessWeedRepetitionDrainsAbsolutely NothingHorde Author:Margaret Sanger
“However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.” PeopleIfsWellsStatesBlackPowerfulMillionsSeaMajorsResourcesEuropeAccessRussiaAsiaUkraineMoscow Book:The Grand Chessboard Source: The Grand Chessboard
“I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their rights to their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for.” PeopleIfsStillsJusticeRightsTenResourcesLet MeIndependenceObjectivesRecognitionSovereigntyZimbabwe Author:Robert Mugabe
“Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.” PeopleHumansGivenViewsRightsResourcesHuman RightsBrownControlledDictatorFrustratedRejectedBlairMr Brown Author:Robert Mugabe
“At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsEndsCausesFailingResourcesEuropeCivil WarAmerican Civil WarLimited Resources Author:William Tecumseh Sherman
“You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.” PeopleHelpingEnvironmentProtectResourcesClimate ChangeEmpoweringProtect The Environment Author:Wangari Maathai
“You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth” PeopleNeedsGivingFactsUseAbleOrderWealthTechnologyEconomySkillsGainsResourcesBlameMismanagement Author:Wangari Maathai