Subsistence Quotes

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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have… — George Berkeley
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… — Norman Borlaug
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. — William Ames
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence,… — John F. Kennedy
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to… — Karl Kraus
If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year… — Abraham Lincoln
It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions… — Pope John Paul II
You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing.… — Milton Friedman
Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have… — Milton Friedman
It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of… — William Paterson
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast,… — Thomas Jefferson
A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomising the child is OK. If… — Ruhollah Khomeini
For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a… — Thomas Sowell
In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women,… — Melinda Gates
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of… — Thomas Malthus
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. — Thomas Malthus
No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that… — John Calvin
Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves… — Nicolas Berggruen
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his… — Thorstein Veblen

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