Quotes by Scarcity Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. Frances Moore Lappé hungerscarcitydemocracy The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC. Frank Herbert scarcityoilwater Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity. George Gilder scarcityqualitytime 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 scarcityorderlong It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another. George Orwell scarcityhardshipgroups 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 scarcitystoriesmean 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 scarcitystrangegiving 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. Daly scarcityearthmother 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 scarcityopportunityyears You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal. Jacque Fresco scarcitydesignpeople The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom. James Clavell scarcitydoeyears 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 scarcityspeechorder Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance. Jason Silva scarcityagepay The problem is not scarcity; the problem is power. Jim Stanford scarcityproblem 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 Berger scarcityprioritiesworld There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital. John Maynard Keynes capitalismscarcityreason 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 scarcitylandmay Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. Jonathan Swift owingscarcitymen 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 scarcitynaturemen 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 scarcityimportantpeople«12345»
