Citas de subsistencia

• El poder de la población es indefinidamente mayor que el poder de la tierra para producir subsistencia para el hombre.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Population, Earth

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.47, Penguin UK

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

  Alexander Hamilton

  Power, Reality, Men

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2009). “The Federalist”, p.518, Harvard University Press

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• The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

  Barón de Montesquieu

  Men, Naked, Citizens

  "The Spirit of the Laws". Book by Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXIII: Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Number of Inhabitants, Ch. 29: Of Hospitals, 1748.

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• Hace siglo y medio, Malthus sostenía que el hombre, al agotar todos sus recursos disponibles, presionaría para siempre sobre los límites de la subsistencia, condenando así a la humanidad a un futuro indefinido de miseria y pobreza. Ahora podemos empezar a esperar y, creo, saber que Malthus no estaba expresando una ley de la naturaleza, sino simplemente la limitación entonces de la sabiduría científica y social. La verdad o falsedad de su predicción dependerá ahora, con las herramientas de que disponemos, de nuestras propias acciones, ahora y en los años venideros.

  John F. Kennedy

  Creer, Futuro, Ciencia

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

  Charles Darwin

  Mean, Men, Survival

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.807, Diversion Books

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• 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

  Xenophobia, Mean, Land

  "I lost a reference with whom I '...want to be someone else but without ceasing to be[me]...'" by PEDRO74, ireport.cnn.com. March 27, 2012.

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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 not any subsistence without a mind.

  George Berkeley

  Heaven, Mind, Body

  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge pt. 1, sec. 6 (1710)

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• Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

  Thomas Malthus

  Ratios, Increase

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Labor Day

  Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16, 1933.

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• 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

  Children, Mean, Cost

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.41

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• 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

  Mean, Numbers, People

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• 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

  País, Guerra, Gente

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• La cultura es el acuerdo tácito de dejar que los medios de subsistencia desaparezcan tras el propósito de la existencia.

  Karl Kraus

  Media, Acuerdo, Civilización

  "En estos grandes tiempos" de Karl Kraus, traducido por Harry Zohn, Montreal, pp. 73-74, ("In these great times"), 1976.

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• The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, People, Generations

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.423

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• Si en cualquier momento cesara todo trabajo, y todas las provisiones existentes se dividieran por igual entre la gente, al final de un solo año apenas podría quedar un ser humano vivo: todos habrían perecido por falta de subsistencia.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Years, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.157, Library of America

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• Man is a luxury-loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Men, Play

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 28, 1973.

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• 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

  Mean, Europe, Race

  Josiah Strong (1893). "La Nueva Era: O, El Reino Venidero"

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• El presupuesto debe equilibrarse, el Tesoro debe volver a llenarse, la deuda pública debe reducirse, la arrogancia de los funcionarios debe atemperarse y controlarse, y la ayuda a tierras extranjeras debe reducirse para que Roma no caiga en la bancarrota. La gente debe aprender de nuevo a trabajar, en lugar de vivir de la asistencia pública.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Freedom, Work, Rome

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• A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Men, Class

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• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Errors

  Conversations with Goethe 15 October (1825)

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• En cierto sentido, los combustibles fósiles son un regalo de una sola vez que nos levantó de la agricultura de subsistencia y, con el tiempo, debería conducirnos a un futuro basado en recursos renovables.

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  Futuro, Ciencia, Agricultura

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes (2008). "El futuro de los combustibles fósiles: From "Hubbert's Peak"", p.160, Princeton University Press

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• Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Condesa de Blessington

  Grief, Passion, Findings

  Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) (1839). “The governess”, p.230

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• Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

  Marca Stewart

  Environmental, World, Poverty

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.41, Penguin

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• 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 the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.

  Juan Calvino

  Moving, Men, Surveys

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Vida, Pensar, Dar

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