The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small…

Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies.

— Masha Gessen

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

— Michael Parenti

If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable…

— Frances Moore Lappé

I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me…

— Pope Francis

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

— Richard John Neuhaus

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

— Robert Kiyosaki

One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating…

— Aristotle

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking…

— Peter Eigen

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

— Michael Parenti

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

— Colin Powell

People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy,…

— Jacque Fresco

“Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Continuous economic and demographic growth has a way of turning abundance into scarcity.”

— William DeBuys

There is only one important resource which has shown a trend of increasing scarcity rather than increasing abundance. That resource is the most important…

— Julian Simon