Quotes About Scarcity

Life is short and so is money

It's kind of a circle. When people are scared, it's easy for them to decide anything different is evil. To forget that everyone is basically the same, that we all love our families and want regular lives. And what makes it worse is that some people use that. They make others scared on purpose, because they know if they do, everyone will start acting stupid." "But why would they want that?" "It's a way to control people. A way to get what they want.

The rats that had once fouled their food became their food. But soon the rats were gone.

When people are scared, it's easy for them to decide anything different is evil. To forget that everyone is basically the same, that we all love our families and want regular lives. And what makes it worse is that some people use that. They make others scared on purpose, because they know if they do, everyone will start acting stupid. -But why would they want that? -It's a way to control people. A way to get what they want.

Whoa, Mother Hubbard. That's some empty cupboard.

One of the advantages of living in the Ice Age would be that there are not very many people around. You're constantly moving, and you have to live by your wits. You can't just have fifteen different kinds of tools, you can't carry them. And no villages—no village idiots. Imagine a world free of idiots!" Idiots, he liked to point out, "don't survive in environments with lions.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Don't be happy you have many boyfriends because law of demand Says cheap commodity has high Demand.

You know what guys & parking spaces have in common? The good ones are always taken and the only ones left are handicaps.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

If all the atoms in the universe were transformed into breasts, there would still not be enough breasts.

We ran out of food," said Potts.

There's more hunger in the world than love.

Salt is so common, so easy to obtain, and so inexpensive that we have forgotten that from the beginning of civilization until about 100 years ago, salt was one of the most sought-after commodities in human history.

The world is running out of good places for ashes. The Jade Rabbit

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.