Famous Quote by Ambrose Bierce

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking.…

— Ambrose Bierce

Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of…

— John F. Kennedy

“Malthus declares in plain English that the right to live, a right previously asserted in favour of every man in the world, is nonsense.…

— Friedrich Engels

“In an age of stagnant or declining birthrates, too, these communities’ willingness to heed the admonition to be fruitful and multiply has led to…

— Ross Douthat

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation…

— Pope John Paul II

A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the…

— Robert Browning

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed…

— Bertrand Russell

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it…

— Annie Dillard

“The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some…

— Anonymous

“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed eugenics.”

— Nicholas Wade