--- title: "4 Eugenics Quotes By Thomas Malthus" description: "4 Eugenics quotes by Thomas Malthus. Plus more from Thomas Malthus and more Eugenics sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e74/thomas-malthus-7621_children_the-redundant-population-necessarily-occ_957442.jpg" --- > [The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/the-redundant-population-necessarily-occasioned-by-the-prevalence-of/) [Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e74/thomas-malthus-7621_children_the-redundant-population-necessarily-occ_957442.jpg) > [No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/no-state-has-hitherto-existed-at-least-that-we-have-any-account-of/) [Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/thomas-malthus-7621_accounts_no-state-has-hitherto-existed-at-least-t_1400203.png) > [Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/where-there-are-few-people-and-a-great-quantity-of-fertile-land-the/) [Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3f/thomas-malthus-7621_draws_where-there-are-few-people-and-a-great-q_1877633.jpg) > [It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/it-does-not-however-seem-impossible-that-by-an-attention-to-breed-a/) [Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d43/thomas-malthus-7621_animal_it-does-not-however-seem-impossible-that_1980052.png) ## Other authors on Eugenics - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-margaret-sanger-63455.jpg) Margaret Sanger 20 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eugenics/margaret-sanger/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-g-k-chesterton-224.jpg) G.K. Chesterton 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eugenics/g-k-chesterton/) ## 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/) [Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-malthus/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eugenics/thomas-malthus/#itemlist", "name": "4 Eugenics Quotes By Thomas Malthus", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Malthus" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/the-redundant-population-necessarily-occasioned-by-the-prevalence-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e74/thomas-malthus-7621_children_the-redundant-population-necessarily-occ_957442.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e74/thomas-malthus-7621_children_the-redundant-population-necessarily-occ_957442.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e74/thomas-malthus-7621_children_the-redundant-population-necessarily-occ_957442.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by…” — Thomas Malthus", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Malthus" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-malthus/no-state-has-hitherto-existed-at-least-that-we-have-any-account-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/thomas-malthus-7621_accounts_no-state-has-hitherto-existed-at-least-t_1400203.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/thomas-malthus-7621_accounts_no-state-has-hitherto-existed-at-least-t_1400203.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/thomas-malthus-7621_accounts_no-state-has-hitherto-existed-at-least-t_1400203.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed…” — Thomas Malthus", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may be compared to a great reservoir of water, supplied by a moderate stream. 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