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Do central banks maintain currency scarcity in order to create conflict?

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What do people make of this statement by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lietaer (who the Zeitgeist Movement describe as the 'designer of the EU currency system'), quoted by the Zeitgeist Movement.

“Greed and Competition are not the result of immutable humantemperament…greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being continuouslycreated and amplified as a direct result of the kind of money we areusing…We can produce more than enough food to feed everybody…but thereis clearly not enough money to pay for it all. The scarcity is in ournational currencies. In fact, the job of the central banks is to createand maintain that currency scarcity. The direct consequence is that wehave to fight with each other in order to survive.”
– “Beyond Greed and Scarcity”, Yes Magazine 1997

No: scarcity is a function of real variables, not nominal variables

Originally claimed by  http://forums.civfanatics.com/member.php?u=114309  

http://forums.civfanatics.com/member.php?u=135323 adds: That quote in isolation doesn't make any sense to me. You can print allthe money in the world. That doesn't mean you can buy anything with it.Google Zimbabwe hyperinflation. It's not getting the common people fed.What that author ignored is that many people lack money not because ofthe shortage of money, but because they don't earn it. They have noskills and no capital and no work. Therefor they have no income.Increasing the supply of cash does not affect that. Of course,excessively strict money does impede people working. But excessivelyloose money does does not provide jobs. There's only so much money inand of itself can do. Money is a tool, not the answer to all problems.