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> [A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/a-great-emigration-necessarily-implies-unhappiness-of-some-kind-or/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

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> [The perpetual struggle for room and food.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/the-perpetual-struggle-for-room-and-food/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

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> [The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/the-prodigious-waste-of-human-life-occasioned-by-this-perpetual/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

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## More by Thomas Malthus

> [On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/on-the-whole-it-may-be-observed-that-the-specific-use-of-a-body-of/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/the-germs-of-existence-contained-in-this-spot-of-earth-with-ample/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/the-proposition-of-mr-ricardo-which-states-that-a-rise-in-the-price/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/thirty-or-forty-proprietors-with-incomes-answering-to-between-one/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/every-endeavor-should-be-used-to-weaken-and-destroy-all-those/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/a-great-emigration-necessarily-implies-unhappiness-of-some-kind-or/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/if-i-saw-a-glass-of-wine-repeatedly-presented-to-a-man-and-he-took-no/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/the-power-of-population-is-indefinitely-greater-than-the-power-in-the/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [ \[P\]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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/p-opulation-when-unchecked-goes-on-doubling-itself-every-twenty-five/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/it-is-not-the-most-pleasant-employment-to-spend-eight-hours-a-day-in/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/a-writer-may-tell-me-that-he-thinks-man-will-ultimately-become-an/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/the-doctrine-of-population-has-been-conspicuously-absent-not-because/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/in-a-state-therefore-of-great-equality-and-virtue-where-pure-and/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/the-greatest-talents-have-been-frequently-misapplied-and-have/)

[Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/)

> [Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/hard-as-it-may-appear-in-individual-cases-dependent-poverty-ought-to/)

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