No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever. — 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 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 Copy Share Image
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under… — 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
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities,… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for… — 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 agriculture to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
[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… — Thomas Malthus 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
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
![“[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 most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.” quote by Thomas Malthus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/16b/thomas-malthus-7621_circumstances_p-opulation-when-unchecked-goes-on-doubl_324443.jpg)
