Scarcity Quotes

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love;

there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

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.

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.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.

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. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents.

This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

What a fetus is learning about in utero is not Mozart's 'Magic Flute' but answers to questions much more critical to its survival: Will it be born into a world of abundance or scarcity?

Free is really the gift of Silicon Valley to the world.

It's an economic force. It's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity. Free is the most interesting thing.

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.

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world.

It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.

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

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.

Their elegant shape, showy colours, 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.

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

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.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, 'I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me.'

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.