“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.” ChildrenCountryHumorKidsFunnyJobsQuotesSexCommunityWorkWealthBusinessCompanyEconomyHumourBirthHumorousEconomicsQuoteProfoundWorkersGreedPopulationProfitPhilosopherQuote Of The DaySellingEmploymentConsumersThoughtfulDependentSatireWealthyThought ProvokingPregnancyDeepEndeavorRetirementInsightfulJobChildAphorismPregnantCommerceSouth AfricaExploitationQuotationsUnemploymentAfricaGreedyEmployedMaximsSayingsEconomic GrowthAdagesProverbsAphorismsMake You ThinkUnemployedReproductionEndeavourAxiomsAdageSellersProverbSatiricalSayingEpigramsAfricanQuotationGnomeSatiristMaximProcreationEpigramGnomesProvoke ThoughtMade Me ThinkKidAxiomProfitabilityDictumDictumsBuyCompaniesSellProductionWorkerCountriesSouth AfricanSexual IntercourseChildfreeDepopulationSatiristsMeansChildlessConsumerExploitObtainBusinessesRetireEndeavorsEndeavoursReproduceEmploySelfish SelfishnessBuyerRetainMeans Of ProductionProcreateBirthrateBirthratesDeath RateDeath RatesDependentsPopulation PyramidMeans Of Reproduction Book:The Use and Misuse of Children Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“...it is plain that the proportion of celibates was high in the Roman empire and that the fall in the fertility of marriages was going on. It is the childless marriage, the small family system that contemporary writers deplore....'The human harvest was bad,' It was bad in all classes, but the decline was most marked in the upper ranks, the most educated, the most civilized, the potential leaders of the race.” PoliticsRaceHistoryDeclineCivilisationEugenicsFertilityChildlessnessNatalismBirthrates Book:Medieval People Source: Medieval People