53 Quotes About Scarcity

If you think happiness is a rare bird you won't see much of it.

Scarcity is historical, as historical as gender or sex. The era of scarcity could come to be only on the assumption that 'man' is individual, possessive, and, in the matter of material survival, gender-less - a rapacious neutrum oeconomicum.

A fool believes that the society of the future will transcend the laws of economics. A person of reason hopes that it will finally learn to respect them.

Any system of ethics must account for scarcity. If it doesn’t, humanity would perish due to misallocation of finite resources, including one’s own body.

If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more

To say that the rich are sad and the poor are happy would be very narrow-minded and stupid. Both scarcity and overabundance tend to produce unhappiness in an individual.

...there's not enough of anything to go around except people and death.

Violence is formed by the scarcity of nature, and will stay with us as long as we live in scarcity.

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.