Quotes of: Subsist Keyword

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

Owen Feltham

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Samuel Johnson

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

Philip Massinger

He looked as if he he subsisted exclusively on carbohydrates and ill feeling.

Capital

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Charles Darwin

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

Ezra Stiles

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

Thomas Malthus

Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together.

Dudley North

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Marquis de Sade

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Daniel Webster

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

Adam Ferguson

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

William Godwin

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-Sax...

Josiah Strong

Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!

Jenna McCarthy

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

William Ames

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.

Junipero Serra

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

John Winthrop

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Algernon Sidney

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

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

Karl Kraus