quotes about Scarcity
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
-- Adam GopnikSource : "The Fifth Blade" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2009.
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No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
-- Adam Smith -
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 of the pie.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.
-- Brené Brown -
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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 and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?
-- Brigham Young -
Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.
-- Brigham Young -
The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.
-- Charles EisensteinSource : Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.30, North Atlantic Books
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Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.
-- Claude C. Hopkins -
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 more things than scarcity.
-- Clay Shirky -
Abundance = choice = freedom. Scarcity = dependence = control.
-- David Icke -
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 -
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Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.
-- David RicardoSource : David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.2
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As I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility... always another right answer.
-- Dewitt Jones -
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 private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.
-- E. F. Schumacher -
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
-- Edwin Way TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead
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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.
-- Esther DysonSource : "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.
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Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,
-- Frances Moore LappéSource : "Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 2005.
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Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.
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Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.
-- George Gilder -
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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 -
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.
-- Herman E. DalySource : Herman E. Daly (1991). “Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays”, p.43, Island Press
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There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.
-- Iain Banks -
The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.
-- James Clavell -
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When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.
-- Jan Struther -
Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.
-- Jason Silva -
The problem is not scarcity; the problem is power.
-- Jim StanfordSource : Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
-- John BergerSource : John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.234, Vintage
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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 -
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 all—human beings. . . . [An] increase in the price of peoples’ services is a clear indication that people are becoming more scarce even though there are more of us.
-- Julian Simon -
A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.
-- Kevin Carson -
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.
-- Kurt Bills -
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The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.
-- Louis O. Kelso -
In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
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Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.
-- Mark KingwellSource : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The world we want: restoring citizenship in a fractured age”
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We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.
-- Mathis Wackernagel -
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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 value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.
-- Michael Bassey -
It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
-- Mohsin Hamid -
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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.
-- Samuel Laman BlanchardSource : "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.
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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 -
If you want to experience abundance, then don't choose a path that ensures scarcity or limitation. Choose a path that has a shot of leading to prosperity. Say no to non-prosperous choices like a job with a fixed paycheck.
-- Steve Pavlina -
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 than on resource scarcity.
-- Steven Pinker -
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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
-- Thomas Love PeacockSource : Thomas Love Peacock (1875). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc”, p.208
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There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.
-- Thomas Paine -
If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.
-- Tony Robbins -
Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
-- Walter BrueggemannSource : Walter Brueggemann (2010). “Journey to the Common Good”, p.35, Westminster John Knox Press
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Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!
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It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.
-- Will OldhamSource : "The Pretender". Interview with Kelefa Sanneh, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2009.
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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 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.
-- Yossi Ghinsberg -
Advertisers are happy to see the stuff they've branded out there for free, they don't care about scarcity, they want any message they're invested in to be shared and to be abundant and to be passed along.
-- Astra TaylorSource : Source: therumpus.net
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The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.
-- George Leonard -
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.
-- Henry Gee -
I do think that the fear mentality - of scarcity - comes from within.
-- Rachel Platten -
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.
-- Sendhil Mullainathan -
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Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.
-- Anna Lappe -
Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.
-- Steven Solomon -
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. McMullinSource : "Lay Up in Store". Keith B. McMullin's priesthood session address at the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. April 2007.