Century Quote by Ismail Serageldin Download Open image “The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.” — Ismail Serageldin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Firsts Ocean conservation Twenties War Water World water day
“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
People are saying that the next war will be about water. Let's make sure there will be no next war, and let's make sure… — Miroslav Lajcak Copy Share Image
We think of - there are too many wars, of course, in the world as we speak, but my read on this suggests to… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
I believe water will be the defining crisis of our century — from droughts, storms, and floods to degrading water quality. We'll see major… — Alexandra Cousteau Copy Share Image
Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict. — Kofi Annan 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
Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no… — Ismail Serageldin Copy Share Image
More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health… — Ismail Serageldin Copy Share Image
We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today — Ismail Serageldin 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,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
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… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
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
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