Unlimited Wants Quotes

There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

I feel the same way about clothes as I do about food. I want everything.

Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more

The fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited

We can already produce Necessaries enough for everybody but we can never produce Luxuries enough; since the desire for them is insatiable.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.