The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. — William Ames Copy Share Image
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the… — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Obviously, our most pressing need is subsistence for the most vulnerable victims of Katrina, but we should not overlook the fact that… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things." It does not make things in… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image