Scarcity Quotes - Page 2

Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.

I do think that the fear mentality - of scarcity - comes from within.

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that youll have little in the future.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

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 I see how blind so many of us still are. Our planet is remarkably abundant and there's more than enough for us all.It is greed and shortsightedness that create the illusion of scarcity.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have.

The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional emphasis of affirmation, until at last "everybody says so," and then it is undeniable.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

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.

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.

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail.

Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

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.

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.

No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story-amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.