“There is enough on Earth for everybody's need but not for everyone's greed.”
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Attribution note
Alternate wording ('There is enough on Earth for everybody's need...') of the widely-circulated paraphrase; same attribution problem — a distillation of a secondhand remark, not a documented primary quotation.
Likely origin: Variant of the same paraphrase as rank 558; traced via Pyarelal ('The Last Phase', 1958) to a differently-worded Gandhi remark, not his verbatim words.
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The limit most systems hit is not supply but restraint. Enough exists to cover what people actually require; the strain comes from wanting more for its own sake. Living within real need, rather than endless want, keeps a shared pool from being drained.
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- A food bank redistributes a supermarket's surplus so no family in the area goes without dinner.
- Roommates agree to split groceries by what each truly uses, and the kitchen never runs bare.
- A fishing village sets catch limits so the stock survives for next season.