Scarcity Quotes
128 Scarcity quotes by 109 unique authors
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Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the…
— E F Schumacher
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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
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We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when…
— Sharif Abdullah
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Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of…
— Kenichi Fukui
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If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.
— Seth Godin
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A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!
— Walter E. Williams
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War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. Â There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. Â The…
— Jacque Fresco
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If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges. Â Do you understand that? Â So, all our decision making is based…
— Jacque Fresco
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People say that the monetary system produces incentive. Â This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy,…
— Jacque Fresco
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You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. Â In scarcity, people will tend to steal. Â If…
— Jacque Fresco
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Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
— Walter Brueggemann
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It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and…
— Arthur Eddington
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The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and…
— Kurt Bills
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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.
— Will Oldham
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Godfulness is simply recognizing the primacy of a presence of love, spaciousness, grace, generativity, caring, and creativity in the world and in myself. How can…
— David Spangler
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We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. but the deeper truth is that we don't entirely trust it, and therefore have a…
— John Welwood
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People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see life as a…
— Stephen Covey
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It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks…
— Clay Shirky
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GREED AND COMPETITION ARE NOT THE RESULT OF IMMUTABLE HUMAN TEMPERMENT…GREED AND FEAR OF SCARCITY ARE IN FACT BEING CREATED AND AMPLIFIED …THE DIRECT CONSEQUENCE…
— Bernard Lietaer
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Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,
— Frances Moore Lappé
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Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness…
— Peter Block
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I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and…
— Yossi Ghinsberg
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There is only one important resource which has shown a trend of increasing scarcity rather than increasing abundance. That resource is the most important of…
— Julian Simon
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