It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without… — Thomas Malthus Accord Copy Share Image
Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to… — Thomas Malthus Attachment Copy Share Image
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. — Thomas Malthus Misery 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
Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. — Thomas Malthus Cases 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
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply. — Thomas Malthus Available 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
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of… — Thomas Malthus Animated Copy Share Image
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means… — Thomas Malthus Constant Copy Share Image
The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a… — Thomas Malthus Distance Copy Share Image
“The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious that he has drawn these… — Thomas Malthus Human life 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 Able 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 Corn Copy Share Image
The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all… — Thomas Malthus Attributes 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
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
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 friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross. — Thomas Malthus Condemns 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
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
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
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. — Thomas Malthus Captivating Copy Share Image
The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the… — Thomas Malthus Breasts 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… — Thomas Malthus Balance Copy Share Image
It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle… — Thomas Malthus Class Copy Share Image
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly… — Thomas Malthus Animal Copy Share Image
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd… — Thomas Malthus Cleanliness 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
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew… — Thomas Malthus Acquaintance 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
Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of… — Thomas Malthus Certain Copy Share Image
It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter… — Thomas Malthus Branches Copy Share Image
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy… — Thomas Malthus Blank 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
It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of… — Thomas Malthus Better off Copy Share Image
In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only… — Thomas Malthus Britain Copy Share Image
The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the… — Thomas Malthus Discoveries 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
