On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to… — Thomas Malthus Balance 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… — Thomas Malthus Courses 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… — Thomas Malthus Air 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… — Thomas Malthus Convenience 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… — Thomas Malthus Agriculture Copy Share Image
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. — Thomas Malthus Country 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… — Thomas Malthus Blind Copy Share Image
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. — Thomas Malthus Earth 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 Circumstances Copy Share Image
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house. — Thomas Malthus Counting Copy Share Image
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. — Thomas Malthus May 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… — Thomas Malthus Absent 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 Character Copy Share Image
The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation… — Thomas Malthus Abhorrence Copy Share Image
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. — Thomas Malthus Cases Copy Share Image
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. — Thomas Malthus Philosophy Copy Share Image
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply. — Thomas Malthus Available Copy Share Image
Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond… — Thomas Malthus Doom Copy Share Image
If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at… — Thomas Malthus Country Copy Share Image
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. — Thomas Malthus Character Copy Share Image
The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole… — Thomas Malthus Ale Copy Share Image
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of… — Thomas Malthus Children Copy Share Image
No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that… — Thomas Malthus Extinction Copy Share Image
If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and… — Thomas Malthus Affair Copy Share Image
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. — Thomas Malthus Increases Copy Share Image
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