Century Quote by Boutros Boutros-Ghali Download Open image “Water will be more important than oil this century” — Boutros Boutros-Ghali ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Important Oil Water
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Water has always been something that I care deeply about, and I'm very aware of its limits on this planet. If we don't change… — Alysia Reiner Copy Share Image
Is water the next oil? Motives behind the question vary, depending on who asks the question. Those who see water as a future core… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“It’s become a truism that future wars will be fought not over oil, but over water. According to the journal Nature, four-fifths of the… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the… — Mostafa Kamal Tolba Copy Share Image
Among the most important lessons to be taken from the history of oil is not taking essentials for granted. Conserve oil, but also conserve… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The uncontrolled and rapacious exploitation of oil has led to unintended consequences, and if we continue on a similar trajectory with water, the oil… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Oil is essential for a modern, industrial society. It's unique, first of all, because it's the primary source, at 40 percent, of the world's… — Michael Klare Copy Share Image
We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably ... We are at the beginning of the… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left.… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
