Subsistence Quotes

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. (Thomas Malthus)
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
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. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio, Subsistence, increases only in an arithmetical ratio. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other vist the human race. View quote
Thomas Malthus
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. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. View quote
Karl Kraus
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime. View quote
John Stuart Mill
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day. View quote
Karl Marx
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)
The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change. View quote
Arthur Lewis
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. View quote
Charles E. Wilson
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. View quote
Junipero Serra
In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life. View quote
Shaffi Mather
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. View quote
William Ames
Men have superior strength of body; but were it not for mistaken notions of beauty, women would acquire sufficient to enable them to earn their own subsistence, the true definitions of independence; and to bear those bodily inconveniences and exertions that are requisite to strengthen the mind. Let us then, by being allowed to take the same exercise as boys, not only during infancy, but youth, arrive at perfection of body, that we may know how far the nation superiority of man extends . For what reason or virtue can be expected from a creature when the seed-time of life is neglected? None; did not the winds of heaven casually scatter many useful seeds in fallow ground. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. View quote
Charles Darwin
Suppose that, by some new discovery, or some improved mode of culture, only one per cent could be added to the annual results of English cultivation; this, of itself, would materially affect the comfortable subsistence of millions of human beings. View quote
Daniel Webster
Anybody who would like to have a long life and make his subsistence expanded, should pay visits to his own relatives. View quote
Husayn ibn Ali
Who is it who is responsible for the scheme of things whereby one man is engaged through life in grinding labour to win a bare and precarious subsistence for himself, and when, at the end of his days, he claims at the hands of the community he served a poor pension of eightpence a day, he can only get it through a revolution, and another man who does not toil receives every hour of the day, every hour of the night, whilst he slumbers, more than his poor neighbour receives in a whole year of toil? Where did the table of that law come from? Whose finger inscribed it? These are the questions that will be asked. The answers are charged with peril for the order of things the Peers represent; but they are fraught with rare and refreshing fruit for the parched lips of the multitude who have been treading the dusty road along which the people have marched through the dark ages which are now merging into the light. (David Lloyd George)
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Present-day society is wholly based on the exploitation of the vast masses of the working class by a tiny minority of the population, the class of the landowners and that of the capitalists. It is a slave society, since the "free” workers, who all their life work for the capitalists, are "entitled” only to such means of subsistence as are essential for the maintenance of slaves who produce profit, for the safeguarding and perpetuation of capitalist slavery. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
I saw my Lord with the eye of my heart. He said, "Who are you?" I said, "I am You." You are He Who fills all place But place does not know where You are. In my subsistence is my annihilation; In my annihilation, I remain You. View quote
Mansur Al-Hallaj