Scarcity Quotes

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. (Truman Capote)
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. View quote
Maya Angelou
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. View quote
Edmund Burke
The economic difficulty of the modern world is not shortage of materials but the organization of their exchange and distribution; distress arises, not from scarcity but from dislocation and maladjustment. View quote
Norman Angell
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. View quote
Thomas Sowell
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I sincerely wish they had it exclusively), and because I think there is already a vast redundancy rather than a scarcity of paper medium. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them. View quote
David Ricardo
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. (David Ricardo)
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom. View quote
James Clavell
I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things. View quote
Sharon Stone
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. View quote
Michael Parenti
Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance. View quote
Mark Kingwell
The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC. View quote
Frank Herbert
The erroneous economic belief in scarcity leads directly to the mistaken theological belief that God does not want us to be rich. After all, in a world of scarce physical resources, a person could achieve personal wealth only by taking wealth from another - something that a truly benevolent, loving God would never allow. View quote
Paul Zane Pilzer
The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey. View quote
Ernest Thompson Seton
The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of gratitude is one of the most powerful attracting forces in the universe. A heart filled with Thanksgiving, even when appearances tell us that we are mired in scarcity, conflict, and affliction, moves us to a higher frequency in consciousness and we soon witness reality shining through the illusion. View quote
John Randolph Price
Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. (Henry Walter Bates)
I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information. View quote
Esther Dyson
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth. View quote
Kenichi Fukui
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 resources that we consume, produce and utilize. View quote
Kurt Bills
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 study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal. View quote
Kurt Bills