Quotes About Scarcity

They have a saying among them: 'When whores are few, a boy will do.

When we believe there is not enough, that resources are scarce, then we accept that some will have what they need and some will not. We rationalize that someone is destined to end up with the short end of the stick.

There's not enough becomes the reason we do work that brings us down or the reason we do things to each other that we're not proud of. There's not enough generates a fear that drives us to make sure that we're not the person, or our loved ones aren't the people, who get crushed, marginalized, or left out.

If I look at my dreams, desires, and hopes for the future as coming from a place of scarcity and the world's limited supply, it will constantly feed the notion that someone else's success is a threat to mine.

outgrowth of materialism is the notion that there are "winners" and "losers," the "haves" and the "have-nots." Parents need to check in with themselves regularly and avoid endorsing values that pit children against each other or suggest that resources are so scarce that children must be in constant competition.

A marriage for love, rare as cedars from the East.

If there was one sunset every twenty years, how would people react to them? If there were ten seashells in all the world, what would they be worth? If people could make love just once a year, how carefully would they pick their mates?

Soon we will all eat stones.

He had just one vowel and one consonant left.

At this time, too, many Mafia bosses were appointed to responsible positions in the administration simply because there was no one else.

Excellent things are rare.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

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

Poverty should not accumulate to just absence of food: Sometimes its the absence of our ability to ignore other irrelevant desires.

a place that receives seven inches or less—as Phoenix, El Paso, and Reno do—is arguably no place to inhabit at all.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

I lived out at Sunlan' Lan' an' Cattle Company's place. Honest to God, they got a cop for ever' ten people. Got one water faucet for 'bout two hundred people.

The fucking world is running out of gas.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

I do think that the fear mentality - of scarcity - comes from within.

If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.