Competition for Resources Quotes

Competition is a sin.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

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.

There's a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply.

Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.

I think competition is the best thing for everyone. Competition is what makes us evolve, from when we were itty bitty little tadpoles in prehistoric times to what we've turned into now. Competition makes us evolve and makes us push ourselves better.

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

Evolutionary science kind of bears that out: When species are rivals and competing for space and resources, the superior one wins. Nature has no compunction about that; it just is.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other...but we need that money.

I see life and the world simply as an arena for competition. That's just what people do, and there are always going to be winners and losers.

I think it's good to have competition.

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

There's going to be competition because there are not enough resources. Resources grow arithmetically, populations grow exponentially. You can't ever have enough resources and that's the foundation of this idea of competition.

Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.

If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.

Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production.

Big fish eat little fish.

In the nature of man we find three principle causes of quarrel. First, competition; second diffidence; thirdly, glory.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.