Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. — Saadi 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
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
People are already living subsistence lives. Anything that happens that might impact their ability to survive is almost a death notice. — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence… — Junipero Serra Copy Share Image
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who… — Nick Mills Copy Share Image
Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences,… — James Mill Copy Share Image
You may give a piece of bread to a hungry person, and when the cravings of hunger return some one else must… — Daniel H. Wells Copy Share Image
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material… — Rudolf Rocker 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
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
It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and… — William Paterson 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
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“(On producer/consumer relationship in subsistence farming) This is the sort of interconnectedness that once defined every outpost across our emerging nation. But… — Ben Hewitt Copy Share Image
If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune 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
Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be… — Ulrich Beck 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
In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes 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
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
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
