Quotes About Scarcity

Truth is a luxury. We can only afford it now and then.

Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn't understand that. They'd think, Poke gave us garbage, and Achilles gave us raisins. That's because they were stupid.

Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!

Sleep was like wealth, elusive and for other people.

Racism is a luxury in a world where resources are scarce, where economic competition is an armed sport, in a world where even the atmosphere is plotting against you. In an arena like that racism is more a halftime entertainment, a favorite sitcom when the day is done.

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

The great algorithm to remember in dealing with this tendency is simple: an idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's easily available to you.

Meanwhile, time is one of our most scarce resources. At the moment, you are reading instead of working, playing with the dog, applying to law school, shopping for groceries, or having sex. Life is about trade-offs, and so is economics.

Generosity says a great deal about a person's emotional and spiritual development. When it's hard to give, or it feels like ripping away a part of the self, we are still anchored in our attachments or stories we've created about scarcity. If this applies to you, make friends with the part of you that feels resentful or finds it difficult to give.

Suitable guys are an endangered species

...there is no such thing as infinity in any of the natural resources of the earth.

...without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

Did you know there's now a coin shortage? Yes, America is literally out of common cents.

The value of affection going up when it was in short supply

Tal y como lo planteó Downs, el hombre racional «persigue sus objetivos de un modo tal que, en la medida de sus posibilidades, utilizará la mínima cantidad de recursos escasos por unidad de resultados obtenidos». Esto también exigía centrarse en un aspecto concreto de un individuo y no en «toda su personalidad».

It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.

Hay tantos milagros en el mundo que apenas pueden contarse, o que hay tan pocos que apenas vale la pena mencionarlos

You think when you have love that love is easy to find, that everyone has it. It's not true. It's very hard to find.

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

no poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared—but there, the deficiency was considerable.

More than 1 billion people do not have access to sufficient water to meet their basic sanitation needs.

Malnutrition and famines are common in some regions, but they result mainly from unequal distribution rather than adequate production, of food.