Deepak Chopra Quotes

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

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

Two dogs never agree about one bone.

The most frequent reason why men desire to hurt each other, ariseth hence, that many men at the same time have an Appetite to the same thing; which yet very often they can neither enjoy in common, nor yet divide it.

When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other.

In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in the social order that emerges out of the rubble.

Everyone's out there trying to take what's mine, and they're going to have to fight me for it.

The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run out of resources. If you embrace their idea of a world where there is only so much to go around, then you are endorsing a program of genocide and a war of all against all.

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

With shrinking resources, interest groups are pitted against each other.

Everybody just wants to steal each other's energy.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

Most economic fallacies derive … from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.

The United States has consumed in the last 50 years more natural resources than the rest of the entire human race for all of history.

The causes of war are the same as the causes of competition among individuals: acquisitiveness, pugnacity, and pride; the desire for food, land, materials, fuels, mastery. The state has our instincts without our restraints.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man’s nature.

Modern competition is often described as a fight of all against all.

Human use of one resource runs squarely against human use of another resource.

Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.

The problem is that the good Lord didn’t see fit to put oil and gas reserves where there are democratic governments.

The erroneous economic belief in scarcity leads directly to the mistaken theological belief that God does not want us to be rich. After all, in a world of scarce physical resources, a person could achieve personal wealth only by taking wealth from another - something that a truly benevolent, loving God would never allow.

This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.