Quotes About Scarcity

Our danger is not from scarcity, but from abundance. We are constantly tempted to excess.

Money is a sign of poverty.

Men are like parking spaces, the good ones are already taken and the ones left are running out of their metres

When death slowed production, goods became scarce and prices soared. In France the price of wheat increased fourfold by 1350. At the same time the shortage of labor brought the plague's greatest social disruption—a concerted demand for higher wages. Peasants as well as artisans, craftsmen, clerks, and priests discovered the lever of their own scarcity.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

For all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

For a lovely bowl Let us arrange these flowers... For there is no rice

I get that money is important, and it's scary to think that you won't have enough. At the same time, we can set up reasonable social safety nets and take care of everybody.

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

The first effect of poverty is that it kills thought.

because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

Without the copper he knew all too well how unwelcome he would be.

Ilse, a childhood friend of mine, once found a raspberry in the concentration camp and carried it in her pocket all day to present to me that night on a leaf. Imagine a world in which your entire possession is one raspberry and you give it to your friend.

The average worker in 2015 wanting to attain the average living standard in 1915 could do so by working just 17 weeks a year, one third of the time. But most people don't choose to do that. They are willing to work hard to harvest the technological bounty that is available to them. Material abundance has never eliminated perceived scarcity.

For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy.

If resources become scarce, people tend to fight for them. This is increasing the number of people on the move and the number of people forced to move. They're not refugees, according to the legal definition, but they represent a major humanitarian and human rights challenge, as well as a major challenge for world politics.

You see this in the oil industry time and time again. Fears that we've found the last oil, that we're going to run out, pop up constantly. And soon afterward, because the price goes up, huge new reservoirs are discovered.

La felicità è una cosa talmente fragile di questi tempi. E' come se non ce ne fosse abbastanza per tutti.

The rareness of the article is relative to the desire of the heart which seeks it.

Los valores sagrados solo acostumbran adquirir una fuerte relevancia cuando son desafiados, de la misma manera que los alimentos adquieren un valor acuciante solo cuando no se tiene acceso a ellos.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.