Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.” — Jud H. Copeland Brian C. O'Connor Jodi L. Kearns Copy Share Image
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Everybody makes such a big deal today about team play because there's such a scarcity of it. Greed is a reason. You… — Pete Carril Copy Share Image
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
“Roberta said, ‘With such devices we have made a major step towards a true post-scarcity society. Hunger banished without labour, for ever.’… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
GREED AND COMPETITION ARE NOT THE RESULT OF IMMUTABLE HUMAN TEMPERMENT…GREED AND FEAR OF SCARCITY ARE IN FACT BEING CREATED AND AMPLIFIED… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
“Part of the reason people could eat so well was that many foods that we now think of as delicacies were plenteous… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new,… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
There is an obvious evolutionary explanation for the scarcity of altruistic saints: Without a strong predilection for their own interests, our ancestors… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Imagine that you start with the assumption that we live in a world of limited possibilities. You have a fixed mindset, a… — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a… — Andre Michel Lwoff Copy Share Image
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Don't accept the fear that scarcity exists in any corner of your life. There is enough love, enough time, enough healing to… — Jewel Copy Share Image
We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency. — Mathis Wackernagel Copy Share Image
“If you want to understand the principle of scarcity, just look in the fridge for vegetables after your brother has gone shopping.” — Anyta Sunday Copy Share Image
I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
“The Scarcity of Flowers in the society made guys settle for weeds and grasses… Trust me i'll rather import a Rose than… — GoalsRider Copy Share Image
Advertisers are happy to see the stuff they've branded out there for free, they don't care about scarcity, they want any message… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I would say that the Nipsey Hussle 'Crenshaw' release was an example of All Money In creating an artificial scarcity campaign for… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
“societies confronted with specific environmental circumstances-scarcity or abundance-have a higher risk of being affected by violent conflicts.” — Philippe Le Billion Copy Share Image
“Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
