The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. — Thomas Malthus Character Copy Share Image
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one. — Thomas Malthus Bird Copy Share Image
The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing. — Thomas Malthus Courage Copy Share Image
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. — Thomas Malthus Country Copy Share Image
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower… — Thomas Malthus Doubt Copy Share Image
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. — Thomas Malthus Philosophy Copy Share Image
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor. — Thomas Malthus Distress Copy Share Image
The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would… — Thomas Malthus Character Copy Share Image
With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world… — Thomas Malthus Age Copy Share Image
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of… — Thomas Malthus Agriculture Copy Share Image
The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country.… — Thomas Malthus Consequence Copy Share Image
In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working… — Thomas Malthus Adversity Copy Share Image
The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to… — Thomas Malthus Balance Copy Share Image
The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation… — Thomas Malthus Abhorrence Copy Share Image
To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals,… — Thomas Malthus Animal Copy Share Image
If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and… — Thomas Malthus Affair Copy Share Image
The exertions that men find it necessary to make, in order to support themselves or families, frequently awaken faculties that might otherwise… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole… — Thomas Malthus Ale Copy Share Image
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state. — Thomas Malthus Men Copy Share Image
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. — Thomas Malthus Attention Copy Share Image
If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at… — Thomas Malthus Country Copy Share Image
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever. — Thomas Malthus Earth Copy Share Image
