Quotes About Water Wars

#1. It made me angry that people could simply kill other people, take what they wanted, and ignore the cries of the sick and hungry. The world wasn't like that - or it shouldn't be like that - even though I hadn't seen enough of the world to know what it was really like.

Cameron Stracher

#2. Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.

John Updike

#3. Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

Steven Pinker

#4. Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty- the realities of access to water and food- which create the long-term drivers of our insecurity. Most wars are fought over scarce resources and that is going to accelerate in the future.

Rajiv Shah

#5. If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

Carol Ann Duffy

#6. Esmeralda, don't blame your brother for his girlfriend's lack of wits, Sam admonished.

L.D. Davis

#7. Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

Douglas Adams

#8. Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Alexandra Paul

#9. I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

Christine Vachon

#10. Big worms that move through the sand like it's water." Roger's level arm went up and down in a smooth wave. "Or the big thing in Star Wars. What if we step down there and the sand just turns into a big pit with a mouth at the bottom?" "For the record, it's called a Sarlacc," Xela said.

Peter Clines

#11. 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 nonviolence.

Colman McCarthy

#12. God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.

Betty Williams

#13. This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

H.G.Wells

#14. We think of - there are too many wars, of course, in the world as we speak, but my read on this suggests to me that water is going to be the resource into the future that we're really - that countries, nations, are going to be fighting for control over.

Tavis Smiley

#15. August is the month when wars start. It's when the water dries up and the spirit begins to wither. Insomniacs pull down their shades and lock themselves in their rooms in August. Lifelong friends have fist fights. People feel like they're going to burst. Sometimes they do.

Al Aronowitz

#16. She is the last of her kind, she thought. No wars had ever touched her, and she had lived through three; nothing had disturbed that world of hers, where gentlemen smoked on the porch or in hammocks, where ladies fanned themselves gently and drank cool water.

Harper Lee

#17. Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

Douglas Booth

#18. Wisdom will give you the world; love will give you the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

Rick Moody

#20. Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

Evel Knievel

#21. Hope is a lover's staff,

Nicholas Boothman

#22. The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

Ismail Serageldin

#23. The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

William Shatner

#24. Summer lightning made it seem that flickering white-hot wires were turning in the terribly blue sky just above the horizon, and the recent storms had driven in toward shore hundreds of gigantic Portuguese man-o'-wars that now hung below the surface of the water like big malignant pearls.

Tim Powers

#25. For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.

George MacDonald