Quotes About Scarcity

It's so dreadful to be poor!

As she said, she was "fond of luxury," and her chief trouble was poverty.

In Ashringford, if souls are rare, we've at least some healthy spirits.

Alala! I have no cloth to wrap me. The kites will see that I am naked. I am ashamed to meet all these people.

Stocking up is what our robust Americans called it, laughing nervously, because profligate abundance automatically evokes its opposite, the unspoken specter of dearth.

Usually it is said that periodic droughts cause bad crops and therefore starvation. But it is the elites of starving countries that propagate this idea. It is a false idea. The unjust or mistaken allocation of funds and national property is the most frequent source of hunger. There was a lot of grain in Ethiopia, but it had first been hidden by the rich and then thrown on the market at a doubled price, inaccessible to peasants and the poor.

Ah, you noticed that black sheep on the hills aren't nearly as plentiful as the white. They're a particularly hardy lot.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.

there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

Believing this, as I do, there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of a love that is in fact the same Love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us while we starve.

They then started to test the other children, and it was discovered that none of us had sufficient vitamin C, D, or A in our diets. We never had fruit, never had raw leafy greens, never had milk. There was plenty of this on the Island, you know, but it was all sold, every scrap of it, to the mainland, and had been since slavery time.

Every nation was rich in its own way, but poor in the same.

Probably fire and pestilence to follow, could be a plague of boils and locusts, maybe an egg and bacon shortage to top things off.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store.

Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost.

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.

There is not such a man as the doctor appears in this world more than once in a hundred years.

Water, water, water... There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount...unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare, said a wise man. If so, what happens to excellence when we eliminate the difficulty and the rarity?

Space and scarcity give us dignity. And liberty. And thereby beauty.