Quotes About Scarcity

We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.

sorrow at the realisation that food was finite.

The greatest commodity to own is land. It is finite. God is not making any more of it.

During times of scarcity at least, yes. This is one probable explanation for why most life on Earth, including ours, is programmed to die." Desh's

There are two basic approaches to life- one in which the world is a world of scarcity, given to us by the skinflint god, and the other in which the world is a world of endless possibilities, bestowed on us by a loving Father.

Good women are rare too, none of them have come close.

Jack as "something of a rare species" in a nation "steeped in corruption.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.

Don't accept the fear that scarcity exists in any corner of your life. There is enough love, enough time, enough healing to go around. Give what you wish to receive.

Before 1492, Europe suffered from scarcity and famine. After 1492, the vast wealth carried to Europe from the Americas and extracted by the forced labor of Africans granted governments new powers that contributed to the rise of nation-states.

In other words, if the U.S. government cannot find ways of living within its means, as most families are forced to do, the nation may fall into third-world status, complete with scarcities of food and water, consumer goods, and socialized government control.

Water is the oil of the twenty-first century," declared Andrew Liveris, the chief executive of Dow, a chemical company.

Complaining is a way of reinforcing the mindset of scarcity and lack. If something is wrong, take action to set it right rather than complaining.

All that was missing... was everything else.

The fear of the drugs running out is manageable-the fear of time running down isn't.

The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.

In the train a Communist denied to me that there was a famine. I flung a crust of bread which I had been eating from my own supply into a spittoon. A peasant fellow-passenger fished it out and ravenously ate it. I threw an orange peel into the spittoon and the peasant again grabbed it and devoured it. The Communist subsided.

What you didn't have, you didn't have.

La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances.

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.