Quotes About Scarcity

course. There was only one spare seat in the whole room, and we already

I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced.

Here where vegetables are scarce—or, it seems, scarcely eaten—there are times when ham (gorgeous, fantastic ham!) is the starter, the vegetable, and the main dish, all in one.

Charity fits the economy of scarcity, because it supports the blasphemous myth that the rich are rich because they deserve to be, and their riches are theirs to deal with as they please. With such charity, we are not worthy to tell the story of manna in the wilderness, to pretend to eat together at the Lord's Supper, or claim the Year of Jubilee as our own.

You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.

La envidia es mil veces más temible que el hambre porque es hambre espiritual.

A vida no campo é assim: nos anos de abundância, quando chove muito e nas alturas certas, enchem-se os celeiros e as despensas de comida, todos ficam felizes e há festas nas aldeias a todo o tempo para celebrar as colheitas. Nos anos de seca, os prados fica secos, a fruta apodrece nas árvores, a caça foge, e as pessoas andam tristes e às vezes passam fome.

There's absolutely no need to give importance to items that exist in scarcity when what you really want is more happiness, more health, more love, and more abundance, of which there's enough for all.

There is no free lunch.

If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be...I always thought that there was enough of everything to go around - that there are enough ideas in the universe and enough nourishment.

Fair or no, immigration is considered in the context of economic scarcity, fear of terrorism, wars and geopolitical conflicts, which may be incipient stages of informal proxy wars.

Since the start of collectivization, the necessities of life had almost completely disappeared from the shelves of the village store.

Care Karlo i carice Zita Što ratuješ kada nemaš žita

La paciencia es quizá el recurso más escaso de todos en un mundo en el que la degradación del poder sigue su curso.

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

in a county where romantic partners were as scarce as yaks.

Who, after all, was to say, what was the 'right side' of the war, especially after the turmoil, the food shortages, and scarcity of luxuries?

In a sea of information, there was very little of it to use.

handing me the fare. "Hardly any food in your cupboards, and what's there is only fit for birds and rabbits." My stomach grumbled as if in agreement. I took a bite, closed my eyes, and savored the

The devil take those who first invented balls!" was his reflection. "Who derives any real pleasure from them? In this province there exist want and scarcity everywhere: yet folk go in for balls! How absurd, too, were those overdressed women! One of them must have had a thousand roubles on her back, and all acquired at the expense of the overtaxed peasant, or, worse still, at that of the conscience of her neighbour.

Deep down, it seemed, many Americans were convinced that a gain for others was a loss for themselves.

Lover of pleasure without plenty is a lover of poverty.