Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife — Thomas Malthus Beats Copy Share Image
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one. — Thomas Malthus Bird Copy Share Image
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity. — Thomas Malthus Activity Copy Share Image
The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes. — Thomas Malthus Higher Copy Share Image
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man. — Thomas Malthus Alas Copy Share Image
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. — Thomas Malthus Increases Copy Share Image
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. — Thomas Malthus Able 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
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
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. — Thomas Malthus Captivating Copy Share Image
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. — Thomas Malthus Found 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 Demand Copy Share Image
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross. — Thomas Malthus Condemns Copy Share Image
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply. — Thomas Malthus Available Copy Share Image
It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor… — Thomas Malthus Believe Copy Share Image
The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature… — Thomas Malthus Adversity 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
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
The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover… — Thomas Malthus Combination Copy Share Image
To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be… — Thomas Malthus Common Copy Share Image
No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early… — Thomas Malthus Accounts 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
If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world,… — Thomas Malthus Advantage Copy Share Image
The exertions that men find it necessary to make, in order to support themselves or families, frequently awaken faculties that might otherwise… — Thomas Malthus Adequate 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 Attention 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
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
It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals,… — Thomas Malthus Animal Copy Share Image
To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works… — Thomas Malthus Benefits 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 Draws Copy Share Image
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. — Thomas Malthus Character Copy Share Image
Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. — Thomas Malthus Cases Copy Share Image
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. — Thomas Malthus Environmental Copy Share Image
Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?. — Thomas Malthus Adam Copy Share Image
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever. — Thomas Malthus Earth 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
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