Scarcity Quotes

128 Scarcity quotes by 109 unique authors

Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the… — Kurt Bills
We of course have our problems, to say the least, in comportment towards ourselves and our environment, but admittance to the cosmos and the spatial… — Paul Levinson
Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space,… — Ronald Reagan
Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of… — Michael Bassey
For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough. — BrenÃ© Brown
Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of… — Elie Abel
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small. — Joseph Wood Krutch
It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to… — Lester R. Brown
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention… — Ambrose Bierce
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. — Jonathan Swift
Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the… — Victor Hugo
In abundance prepare for scarcity. — Mencius
When a difficult situation comes into your life, it is possible to tune in to your mind and say, ?Okay, choose.? Are you going to… — Susan Jeffers
Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads… — Julian Simon
The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them,… — Brigham Young
Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity. — Brigham Young
If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves… — Brigham Young
The Arctic is a highway. The tree limit, the scarcity of trees, freed people to walk. Particularly in the wintertime. Which connected people physically, communicatively.… — Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa
Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you… — Cat Cora
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. — Wayne Dyer
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. — Thomas A. Edison
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. — Samuel Johnson
When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece… — Barbara Kingsolver
Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance… — Steven Pinker

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