Belief Quote by Ambrose Bierce

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus 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

“We've already had Malthus , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of humanity, to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“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

“The masses have not always felt themselves to be frustrated and exploited. But the intellectuals that formulated their views for them have always told…

— Joseph Alois Schumpeter

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 masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a…

— Georg Brandes