Quotes About Scarcity

We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.

To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

What, sir, would the people of the Earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess. We never cared any thing about ice-cream at home, but we look upon it with a sort of idolatry now that it is so scarce in these red-hot climates of the East.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. "Woman—An Opinion" (speech) Some

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

Richard didn't mind Gwyn being rich...Having always been poor was good preparation for being rich. Better than having always been rich...The well and all its sweet water would surely one day run dry.

The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.

Or maybe there's one thing to say, about the capitalism of the heart, the belief that the essences of life too can be seized and hoarded, that you can corner the market on confidence, stage a hostile takeover of happiness. It's based on scarcity economics, the notion or perhaps the feeling that there's not enough to go around, and the belief that these intangible phenomena exist in a fixed quantity to be scrambled for, rather than that you can only increase them by giving them away.

E aveva imparato per esperienza che il Bisogno è un magazzino in cui si possono accumulare considerevoli scorte di crudeltà.

We are a species that evolved to survive starvation, not resist abundance

There's not enough of me left over.

Il mondo si divide in: quelli che mangiano il cioccolato senza pane; quelli che non riescono a mangiare il cioccolato se non mangiano anche il pane; quelli che non hanno il cioccolato; quelli che non hanno il pane. (Dai detti celebri di nonno Socrate)

Tailwinds are like smiles from beautiful women—rare and to be cherished.

Rising temperatures, reduction of the polar ice caps, deforestation, over-population, disease, war, famine, lack of water and decimation of animal species; these are all solvable but so far have not been solved.

They say half a loaf is better than none, Jimmy, but in a world of want, even a single slice is better than none.

If Love Were Oil, / I'd Be About a Quart Low.

Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance

let's imagine that 95 percent of the food on Earth magically disappears tonight, guaranteeing that almost all of us will starve to death within two months. Law and order collapse. Chaos and mayhem ensue. Who among us will still be alive a year from now? Will it be the biggest, strongest, and most violent individuals in each town? Or will it be the people who manage to work together in groups to monopolize, hide, and share the remaining food supplies among themselves?

Value is relative," said the saint. "A man with his house on fire and a man dying of thirst each place a different value on a glass of water.

In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.

We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.