Convenience Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower

As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.

— Lobsang Tenzin

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the…

— Jerry Pournelle

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.

— Stewart Udall

We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish. We all have…

— Agnivesh

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and…

— Gifford Pinchot

Avoid the philosophy and excuse that yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities. They aren't necessities unless we ourselves make them such. . . .…

— Thomas S. Monson

We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

— John Lothrop Motley

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough…

— J. Reuben Clark

“Some needs superseded our own wellbeing, and we let ourselves be destroyed by greed and results of our own careless mistakes. We pretend not…

— Gayendra Abeywardane