Scarcity Quotes
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Scarcity Quotes & Sayings
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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
Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!
— Walter E. Williams
Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.
— Brian C. O'Connor, Jud H. Copeland, Jodi L. Kearns
It is a precise thing, a scripted act as deliberate as Jo No Mai, each move choreographed, a worship of scarcity.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Violence is formed by the scarcity of nature, and will stay with us as long as we live in scarcity.
— Haroutioun Bochnakian
The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough...
— Brene Brown
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.
— Jonathan Swift
Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.
— George Gilder
Something is very, very wrong when people don't have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.
— Vandana Shiva
It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
— Willa Cather
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
— Mencius
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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 to quit.
— Sharif Abdullah
Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.
— John Burnham Schwartz
I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.
— Sharon Stone
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
— Edmund Burke
There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
— John Maynard Keynes
We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.
— Mathis Wackernagel
In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
— Margaret Halsey
The drop from abundance to scarcity produced a decidedly more positive reaction to the cookies than did constant scarcity.
— Robert B. Cialdini
Life of scarcity teaches creativity.
— Jag Randhawa
Money is a way of creating scarcity.
— Peter Coyote
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
Earlier scarcity dented the happy disposition of folk, as abundance breeds bitterness today.
— Girdhar Joshi
It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country.
— William Henry Ashley
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
— Samuel Johnson
For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.
— Brene Brown
The Dip creates scarcity; scarcity creates value
— Seth Godin
Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
— Walter Brueggemann
Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Farmers ... can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.
— Lester R. Brown
Scarcity brings clarity.
— James A. Whittaker
Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.
— Shakti Gawain
Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions.
— Jeffrey Steingarten
Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.
— Brigham Young
The simpler we make our lives, the more abundant they become. There is no scarcity except in our souls.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
When scarcity captures the mind, we become more attentive and efficient.
— Sendhil Mullainathan
During times of scarcity at least, yes. This is one probable explanation for why most life on Earth, including ours, is programmed to die." Desh's
— Douglas E. Richards
Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.
— Mark Kingwell
The people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.
— Cheryl Strayed
Continuous economic and demographic growth has a way of turning abundance into scarcity.
— William DeBuys
The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have.
— Wayne Dyer
Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.
— Gary Zukav
Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive.
— Melody Beattie
I have seen times of plentiful and times of scarcity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
— Maya Angelou
This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.
— Angela Merkel
Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,
— Frances Moore Lappe
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
— Henry Rollins
The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.
— James Clavell
Combining influencing tactics, such as authority and scarcity, can strengthen any social engineering campaign for maximum results.
— Jeremiah Talamantes
There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
— Wayne W. Dyer
The problem is not scarcity; the problem is power.
— Jim Stanford
Enjoy the times of plentiful and endure the times of scarcity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
— Thomas A. Edison
Give thanks for everything that you are and everything that you have - that's the first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality.
— Wayne W. Dyer
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
— Thomas Fuller
Unchecked power, driven by self-interest, scarcity, grandiosity and aggression, is deadly to God's original fruitful purposes.
— Andy Crouch
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
As Lawrence Lessig has so persuasively argued over the years, there is nothing "natural" about the artificial scarcity of intellectual property law.
— Steven Johnson
It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
— Mohsin Hamid
When love exists, nothing else matters, not life's predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
— Isabel Allende
If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more
— Ashly Lorenzana
Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.
— Jason Silva
Abundance is not the absence of scarcity; it is the presence of abundant mentality.
— Debasish Mridha
a distinctive amount of a reasonable scarcity improves value greatly
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.
— Walter Brueggemann
The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.
— Charles Eisenstein
Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.
— Steven Levitt
General state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another. By
— George Orwell
Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance
— Toby Hemenway
A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.
— Keith B. McMullin
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
— Robert Anton Wilson
