List Of Scarcity Quotes

Every Place Swarms With Commentaries; Of Authors There Is Great Scarcity.

There Is More Ado To Interpret Interpretations Than To Interpret Things, And More Books Upon Books Than Upon Any Other Subject; We Do Nothing But Comment Upon One Another. Every Place Swarms With Commentaries; Of Authors There Is Great Scarcity.

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.

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.

The Waste Of Plenty Is The Resource Of Scarcity.

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.

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.

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.

Possessing Utility, Commodities Derive Their Exchangeable Value From Two Sources: From Their Scarcity, And From The Quantity Of Labour Required To Obtain Them.

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.

It Is More Rewarding To Be Complicit With Scarcity Than Excess.

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.