It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.
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.
There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance
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.
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.
I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there.
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.
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.
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.
In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail.
Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in 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.
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.
Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity. . . It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.
