The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things. " It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make things in their discreteness for the understanding.
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. . . . [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.
Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
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. 'But what about today? Do you think we should have free immigration?' 'Oh, no,' they'll say, 'We couldn't possibly have free immigration today. Why, that would flood us with immigrants from India, and God knows where. We'd be driven down to a bare subsistence level. '
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
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 them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.
Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.
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.
