Subsistence Quotes

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton

Nature, Power, Human

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Charles Darwin

Means, Greater, Increase

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.
Norman Borlaug

Africa, Level, Percent

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
George Berkeley

Mind, Word, Earth

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
Karl Kraus

Purpose, Means, Culture

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Thomas Malthus

Before, Effort, Means

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
Antonio Tabucchi

Against, Means, Weak

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
William Ames

God, Far, Personal

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Thomas Malthus

Power, Earth, Greater

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.
Ulrich Beck

Education, Social, Possible

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
Charles E. Wilson

May, Living, Level

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.
Joseph Lancaster

Education, Children, May

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.
Josiah Strong

Time, History, Here

We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.
Junipero Serra

Good, Seen, Fishing

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