#subsistence

that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks ↗

— Jim Fergus

#introspection #self-reflection #subsistence #life

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

#ample #any #children #cost #derived

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

#asia #being #coming #competition #enter

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

#agriculture #asia #contrasting #countries #developing

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

#backward #case #certainly #countries #crop

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

— Alexander Hamilton

#general #his #human #human nature #man

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

— William Ames

#essence #far #god #his #manner

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

#complex #deal #education #jobs #need

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

#constant #effort #even #found #increased

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

— Thomas Malthus

#greater #indefinitely #man #population #power