Angela Merkel Quotes

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

Fear–fear of war, fear of invasion, fear of plague and famine, that make it simply not worthwhile constructing things, or planting trees, or even planting next year's crops...

At times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them - even if that means a loss of freedom. Such measures have been popular in the past.

You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake.

I have a hoarding problem because my mom is from a third-world country. And she taught me that you can never throw away anything because you never know when a dictator is going to overtake the country and snatch all of your wealth.

My grandmother would hide bread for when maybe another war would come. You had to be ready.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

You would open a drawer, which my father had jammed full of newspapers, and the bottom would drop out. There were buttons and screws and nails and bottle caps and jar lids – the drawer of jar lids! Why? Because they're made of metal and maybe there'll be another war and we'll need the metal. A friend of mine – I quote him in the book – says, 'You have found the source of the river eBay.'

For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

There seems to be a common strain of miserliness in the American people when it comes to throwing away toothpaste tubes which havea little left in the bottom.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.